Perspective

Recalling a Mormon senator who tried to save Anne Frank’s life

by Rafael Medoff

"Before rushing to inject the issue into the presidential race, it is worth recalling that leaders of the Mormon church have already pledged to refrain from posthumously 'saving the souls' of Hitler's victims, and no doubt will remind their Dominican Republic branch and their other followers of that pledge.

And it is especially worth recalling that when the issue was not saving Anne Frank's soul but saving her life, the most powerful Mormon political figure in America did what he could at a time when too few were willing to do anything at all."