Géza Soos and the “Jewish question”
new sources on the first and second anti-Jewish laws
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.54231/ETSZEMLE.2022.4.3Keywords:
20th century church history, Reformed Church, World War II, Jewish question, remembrance policy, Géza SoosAbstract
Géza Soos (1912–53) was a Reformed youth leader, prime minister’s secretary, World War II resistance fighter and lifesaver, whose attitude to the First and Second Anti-Jewish Laws, and to the “Jewish question” in general has been unknown until now (due to lack of sources). The unpublished parts of his theological thesis, presented in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1950, and a document in the Ráday Collection, shed light on his position on the issue with great precision. The “Jewish question” was still a very sensitive issue in the late 1990s: a sign of this is that the editors of the commemorative volume on Soos deliberately omitted those parts of his thesis, which they considered compromising for Soos, in an attempt to retouch his person historically and to present him in a more favourable light.
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