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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.

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Andrey Sheptytsky in Lviv in the 1930s. (Odessa Review)

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.

Pope Francis, seen at a Holy Mass in Vatican City in June 2019. (Grzegorz Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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Pope Francis, seen at a Holy Mass in Vatican City in June 2019. (Grzegorz Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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