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February 28, 2002
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Monsignor Walter Bayer, who saved Jews from the Holocaust by giving them Catholic baptism papers, died Monday at 89. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, Bayer hid some 50 Jews in his house and had baptism papers prepared for them.

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