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NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A Holocaust survivor living in New York has accused the Mormon church of bad faith in its efforts to avoid proxy baptisms of Jews killed by the Nazis.
Ernest Michel, 85, said Monday he will no longer work with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on the issue, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. He made the announcement at The Center for Jewish History in New York on the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
Michel said he learned by accident years ago that his parents had been posthumously baptized as Mormons.
"My mother and father were killed in the Holocaust for no other reason than they were Jews," he said earlier. "How can the Mormons victimize them a second time and falsely claim their souls for eternity?"
The church says it has agreed not to baptize Holocaust victims, to remove the names of those already listed and to remind its members that posthumous baptism is supposed to be for the ancestors of Mormons.
"We've been true to our word. We've done what we said we would do," said Lance Wickman, a member of the Quorum of Seventy, one of the church's leadership bodies. "Whatever it is they think they've found, we're happy to review."
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