While Bishop von Preysing was protected from Nazi retaliation by his position , his cathedral administrator and confidant Bernard Lichtenberg , was not . Fr . Bernard Lichtenberg served at St. Hedwig 's Cathedral from 1932 , and was under the watch of the Gestapo for his courageous support of prisoners and Jews . Lichtenberg ran Bishop von Preysing of Berlin 's aid unit ( the '' Hilfswerke beim Bischöflichen Ordinariat Berlin '' ) which secretly assistance to those who were being persecuted by the regime . From the '' Kristallnacht '' pogrom of November 1938 onward , Lichtenberg closed each nightly service with a prayer for " the Jews , and the poor prisoners in the concentration camps " , including " my fellow priests there " . On 23 October 1942 , he offered a prayer for the Jews being deported to the East , telling his congregation to extend to the Jew 's the commandment of Christ to " Love thy neighbour " . For preaching against Nazi propaganda and writing a letter of protest concerning Nazi euthanasia , he was arrested in 1941 , sentenced to two years penal servitude , and died en route to Dachau Concentration Camp in 1943 . He was subsequently honoured by Yad Vashem as Righteous among the Nations
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Rescue of Jews by Catholics during the Holocaust