Anne Frank Still a Mormon?

(From an article in the Salt Lake Weekly, August 3, 2000 by Ben Fulton)

A lot can happen in five years. People graduate from high school and university. Communist countries transition into market economies. But five years after it signed an agreement to delete the names of Jewish Holocaust victims from its baptismal rolls, the LDS church has yet to purge the names of several well-known Jews from its databases.

The most well-known is Anne Frank, the teenage diarist. That discovery, and others, shocked Helen Radkey, a researcher who’s made monitoring the church’s baptismal files a part-time hobby. "These people died because they were Jews, and they deserve to be remembered as Jews," Radkey said. "I think it’s very important to preserve and respect their memory."

One year ago, when City Weekly broke the story of both Adolf Hitler and Frank sharing the same database of LDS proxy baptisms for the dead, the church said in a faxed statement that her name would be removed "as soon as possible." If one year is soon, the American Association of Holocaust Survivors, with whom the church signed the agreement, may have longer to wait. While Frank’s name is nowhere on the church’s Internet ancestral file, it still lingers on the church’s International Genealogical Index (IGI) at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. So do the names of her mother, Edith Hollander, who died at Auschwitz, and her sister Margot, who died at Bergen-Belsen with Anne in 1945.

Ernest Michel, associate founder of the American Association of Holocaust Survivors, said he’d wait to pass judgment until he received an explanation from the church. Otherwise, he throws up his hands. "They made it very clear in their agreement that there would be no more records on file," he said........"

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Ed's Note...I spoke to Helen Radkey last week and she told me that she had just uncovered evidence that as of 8/8/0, the records of some of the Nazi leaders, such as Franz Himmler and Adolph Eichmann were still active in the LDS system, showing their baptisms, endowments and sealings.

She was kind enough to send me copies of those two records. If you would like a copy, drop me a note and I’ll send them out.

Perhaps it is time for some of us Ex-Mormons to begin undoing some of these bizarre baptisms for the dead with some Excommunications for the dead.. By the way, some of us who have taken the efforts to leave through their excommunication ’system’ still have our names in their files. What arrogance...

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