Vatican hid Holocaust orphans from their families and urged Pope Pius XII not to protest deportations Historian David I. Kertzer unearthed the developments in Vatican archive documents that were recently unsealed.
A Ukrainian priest who saved Jews during the Holocaust has never been honored by Yad Vashem. New research could change that. In addition to hiding Jews in monasteries, the Hebrew-speaking Andrey Sheptytsky risked his life to tell Pope Pius XII about Nazi atrocities.
The Vatican unseals secret archive on Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII Critics accuse Pius of having turned a blind eye to Jewish suffering. The Vatican maintains that he worked behind the scenes to save Jews.
Global Vatican and Israeli Chief Rabbinate preparing joint statement against euthanasia and assisted suicide