The National Jewish Welfare Board today reported the award of a personal citation from Pope Pius XII to a Jewish U.S. Army nurse stationed in Munich. The nurse is It. Col. Janett Blech of Springfield, Mass., who has been a member of the Army Nurse Corps for 32 years. She received the citation for her work in the campaign to send 60 Vincentian Sisters working in a Munich hospital to Rome during the 1950 Holy year.
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