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In the 1990s, Radkey discovered that Mormons were routinely baptizing survivors of the Holocaust — in other words, they were unilaterally Christianizing people who had been slaughtered because they were not Christians. After they’d been found out, Mormon leaders promised that the practice of baptizing Holocaust survivors would end. However, it did not. In fact, in her most recent findings, Radkey discovered that the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal — for whom the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles is named –had received posthumous rites, as had relatives of Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel.
In an email Radkey forwarded to us and others this week, she wrote:
Since the ill-fated May 1995 agreement between Mormons and Jews — with particular emphasis on Jewish Holocaust victims –my research has conclusively shown that the names of a very large number of Jewish Holocaust victims have been submitted for proxy temple work in Mormon temples. We will never know the exact figure, many tens of thousands, possibly more.
Despite a new “pact” between Mormons and Jews in September 2010, Jewish Holocaust names are still submitted for posthumous baptisms in Mormon temples. The “security” of the current program used for temple submissions, New FamilySearch, may have been exaggerated by Mormon officials. Holocaust entries continue to show up in that program.
“Auschwitz” and “Sobibor” listings now appear to have blocks on them, but that doesn’t stop eager-beaver Mormons, who may not list a location of death, and sometimes not even a year of death, as in the case of the New FamilySearch listing for the famous and still living Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel.
Along with the names of his deceased father and grandfather, Elie Wiesel’s name is currently listed in New FamilySearch as “Ready” for posthumous rites. No dates are given for the family submissions, but they may be recent. It appears that Mormon officialdom either cannot, or will not, control their temple submissions processes 100%.
The very much alive Elie Wiesel, who has broadly educated the masses about the Holocaust, is “Ready” to be ‘posthumously’ baptized a Mormon. As his Mormon record stands, Wiesel’s name could be baptized at any time in a Mormon temple.
Well-known Jews, who are both now deceased, Leopold Pfefferberg, a Schindler’s List Jew, and Marek Edelman, of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, were both ‘posthumously’ baptized by Mormons while they were still alive.
Could Mormons do the same thing to Elie Wiesel, or do they have a magical process to block his name in their system before a Mormon proxy enters the baptismal font on Wiesel’s behalf? There were no effective security measures to prevent the baptisms of Simon Wiesenthal’s parents, Asher and Rosa Wiesenthal, both baptized in Mormon temples in January 2012:
As long as Mormons believe that non-Mormon deceased, including Jews, should become Mormons in the hereafter, the practice of baptizing Jews by proxy, including Jewish Holocaust victims, will persist to some extent in Mormon temples.
Over the years, Radkey’s research has produced some bizarre findings — murderous dictators like Mao Zedong, Stalin and Hitler were posthumously baptized, as were serial killers Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Arthur Gary Bishop and the right-wing terrorist Timothy McVeigh.
I hereby issue the decree that all the deceased Jews that were baptized are now un-baptized. There, everything is fixed.
I affix my holy seal on this day,
Grand Pu-bah Shorebreak
Church of the Holey Doughnut
“Radkey discovered that Mormons were routinely baptizing survivors of the Holocaust — in other words, they were unilaterally Christianizing people…”
If they are baptizing them as Mormons, they can’t really be said to making them Christians. The two are not the same thing.
Baptizing dead people is no goofier than getting bugged by it. It’s like being upset because some group is muttering imprecations over voodoo dolls of my great-grandparents. Who cares!
“People generally mind their own business when they have business worth minding, when they don’t, in order to keep their minds off their own meaningless affairs, they mind the business of others.” I can’t remember the source of that misquoted tidbit, but the general idea accurate.
Now I guess I should go back to minding my own business. I have a very important sock drawer that needs rearranging.
Does the law of large numbers mean anything to anyone? If not, I’ve made my point.
The LDS “church” is not something to be ignored. IMO, after doing my own research, and speaking with those who have known the darker side of the “leaders”, and have left, LDS “royalty” have political financial and cultural goals that make Hitler Stalin Chairman Mao and current day Saudi tyrants look like kindergarten teachers. I make a distinction here between the power mad at the LDS top, who have zero respect for people, including their own flock, and the good people who innocently practice their Mormon faith.