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Sheptytsky supported the [[SS Galicia Division]], blessing new recruits. He reportedly told Volodymyr Kubiyovych, who was helping organize it, that "there is virtually no price which should not be paid for the creation of a Ukrainian army." According to his close friend Rabbi David Kahane, however, Sheptytsky had believed that the SS Galicia Division would be used to fight [[Stalinism]] and personally expressed disgust in a conversation with the Rabbi about the Division's subsequent role as perpetrators of the [[Holocaust]] in Ukraine.

Sheptytsky supported the [[SS Galicia Division]], blessing new recruits. He reportedly told Volodymyr Kubiyovych, who was helping organize it, that "there is virtually no price which should not be paid for the creation of a Ukrainian army." According to his close friend Rabbi David Kahane, however, Sheptytsky had believed that the SS Galicia Division would be used to fight [[Stalinism]] and personally expressed disgust in a conversation with the Rabbi about the Division's subsequent role as perpetrators of the [[Holocaust]] in Ukraine.

Also in February 1942, Sheptytsky sent a letter to [[Heinrich Himmler]] protesting the Holocaust. During World War II, he saved at least 150-200 Jews, mainly [[children]], by hiding them in Greek Catholic orphanages, monasteries, and convents, where they were trained in how to pass as Greek Catholics. He collaborated in this work with the superiors of the Studite orders, Sister Josefa (Helena Witter) and his brother Klymentiy Sheptytsky. At his archbishop's residence in Lviv, he gave shelter to Kurt Lewin, the son of Jecheskiel Lewin, the chief rabbi of the Lviv progressive synagogue.[7]

Also in February 1942, Sheptytsky sent a letter to [[Heinrich Himmler]] protesting the Holocaust. During World War II, he saved at least 150-200 Jews, mainly [[children]], by hiding them in Greek Catholic orphanages, monasteries, and convents, where they were trained in how to pass as Greek Catholics. He collaborated in this work with the superiors of the Studite orders, Sister Josefa (Helena Witter) and his brother Klymentiy Sheptytsky. At his archbishop's residence in Lviv, he gave shelter to Kurt Lewin, the son of Jecheskiel Lewin, the chief rabbi of the Lviv progressive synagogue. Nevertheless, in the summer of 1943, Sheptytsky appointed chaplains for the [[Waffen SS Galicia Division]].

In August 1942, Sheptytsky sent a letter to [[Pius XII]] in which he reported on the brutal [[Nazi]] [[policies]] and condemned the murder of [[Jews]], and also admitted that his original assessment of the Germans' attitude toward Ukrainians was wrong. Nevertheless, in the summer of 1943, Sheptytsky appointed chaplains for the [[Waffen SS Galicia Division]].

In August 1942, Sheptytsky sent a letter to [[Pius XII]] in which he reported on the brutal [[Nazi]] [[policies]] and condemned the murder of [[Jews]], and also admitted that his original assessment of the Germans' attitude toward Ukrainians was wrong. According to historian Ronald Rychlak, "A German Foreign Office agent named 'Frederic' was sent in a tour through various Nazi-occupied and satellite countries during the war. He wrote in his confidential report to the German Foreign Office on September 19, 1943, that Metropolitan Archbishop Andrey Sheptytsky, of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, remained adamant in saying that the killing of Jews was an inadmissible act. 'Frederic' went on to comment that Sheptytsky made the same statements and used the same phrasing as the [[French]], [[Belgian]], and [[Dutch]] bishops, as if they were all receiving instructions from the [[Vatican]]."

 

According to historian Ronald Rychlak, "A German Foreign Office agent named 'Frederic' was sent in a tour through various Nazi-occupied and satellite countries during the war. He wrote in his confidential report to the German Foreign Office on September 19, 1943, that Metropolitan Archbishop Andrey Sheptytsky, of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, remained adamant in saying that the killing of Jews was an inadmissible act. 'Frederic' went on to comment that Sheptytsky made the same statements and used the same phrasing as the [[French]], [[Belgian]], and [[Dutch]] bishops, as if they were all receiving instructions from the [[Vatican]]."

One of the rabbis whose life was saved by Metropolitan Sheptytsky, David Kahane, stated: "Andrew Sheptytsky deserves the undying gratitude of the Jews and the honorific title 'Prince of the Righteous'". In addition, among the Jews who, thanks to Sheptytsky's help, survived the war were Lili Pohlmann and her mother, Adam Daniel Rotfeld (later Poland's foreign minister), two sons of the chief rabbi of Katowice (including the prominent cardiac surgeon Leon Chameides).

One of the rabbis whose life was saved by Metropolitan Sheptytsky, David Kahane, stated: "Andrew Sheptytsky deserves the undying gratitude of the Jews and the honorific title 'Prince of the Righteous'". In addition, among the Jews who, thanks to Sheptytsky's help, survived the war were Lili Pohlmann and her mother, Adam Daniel Rotfeld (later Poland's foreign minister), two sons of the chief rabbi of Katowice (including the prominent cardiac surgeon Leon Chameides).