The Vatican instructed French churches that protected Jewish children during the Holocaust not to return the young Jews to their families at war’s end. According to a letter from Nov. 20, 1946, published this week in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the wartime pope, Pius XII, said that children who had been baptized while in the church’s guardianship should not be reunited with surviving members of their families, Ha’aretz reported.
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