The Anti-Defamation League wants the Vatican to release its Holocaust-era baptismal records. The ADL is gathering signatures on a letter asking the Vatican to disclose its records. The move was in reaction to the discovery of a Vatican letter to French authorities asking them not to return Jewish children hidden during the war to their parents or Jewish communities.
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