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Helen Radkey Interviewed by Lawrence O’Donnell about Mormons’ Posthumous Baptism of Noted Holocaust Survivors

Jon Ponder

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Helen Radkey
Helen Radkey
Helen Radkey, who has often contributed to Pensito Review on issues related to the Mormon Church, was interviewed by Lawrence O’Donnell this week about the latest findings from her research into the controversial practice of Mormons baptizing dead people.

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:

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