Metropolitan Andriy Sheptytsky, the aged, semi-paralysed head of the Uniate Church, sheltered fifteen Jews in his episcopal palace, arranging for another 150, mostly children, to be hidden in nunneries and monasteries. Early in 1942 he wrote to Himmler protesting that ‘Ukrainian auxiliary police are being forced to shoot Jews’, and in November of the same year he issued a pastoral letter under the title ‘Thou shalt not kill’, which was read out from pulpits all over the country.
