Jewish groups , including the Simon Wiesenthal Center , spoke out against the vicarious baptism of Holocaust perpetrators and victims in the mid-1990s and again in the 2000s when they discovered the practice , which they consider insensitive to the living and the dead , was continuing . The associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center , Abraham Cooper , complained that infamous figures such as Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun appeared on LDS genealogical records : " Whether official or not , the fact remains that this is exactly the kind of activity that enraged and hurt , really , so many victims of the Holocaust and caused alarm in the Jewish community . " In 2008 , the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors announced that , since church members had repeatedly violated previous agreements , it would no longer negotiate with the church to try to prevent vicarious baptism . Speaking on the anniversary of Kristallnacht , Ernest Michel , a Holocaust survivor who reported on the Nuremberg Trials , speaking as the honorary chairman of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors , called on the LDS Church to " implement a mechanism to undo what they have done " , and declared that the LDS Church had repeatedly violated their agreements , and that talks with Mormon leaders were now ended . Jewish groups , he said , would now turn to the court of public opinion for justice . Michel called the practice a revision of history that plays into the hands of Holocaust deniers , stating : " They tell me , that my parents ' Jewishness has not been altered but ... 100 years from now , how will they be able to guarantee that my mother and father of blessed memory who lived as Jews and were slaughtered by Hitler for no other reason than they were Jews , will someday not be identified as Mormon victims of the Holocaust ? " Church officials , in response , stated that the church does not teach that vicarious baptisms coerce deceased persons to become Mormons , nor does the church add those names to its list of church members . Church officials have also stated that , in accordance with the 1995 agreement , it has removed more than 300,000 names of Jewish Holocaust victims from its databases , as well as subsequently removing names later identified by Jewish groups . Church officials stated in 2008 that a new version of the FamilySearch application had been developed and was being implemented in an effort to prevent the submission of Holocaust victim names for temple ordinances
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Baptism for the dead