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The Catholic Church, under Pope Pius XII, saved an estimated 847,000 Jews during World War II’ (20/2/2019, zenith.org)
A delegation from Pave the Way Foundation (PTWF), met Pope Francis on February 20, 2019.
NYS Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso, from Formia, Italy, whose family saved the Jewish Sinigallia family presented the Pope with his family diary citing the actions of the Vatican to rescue the Jewish families of Formia.
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PTWF Director, Dr. Bennett Solberg, presented Pope Francis with original documents showing how Pope Pius XII acted to end the arrest of the Roman Jewish community on 16 October 16 1943. Through the Pope’s nephew, Carlo Pacelli and others and Nazi Governor of Rome, General Reiner Stahel the Pope successfully forced the end of the arrests at 2pm the day they began.
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Dr. Solberg presented the Pope with evidence from 1943, where the Augustinian Nuns wrote “today we were asked by Pope Pius XII to protect the Roman Jews and named those they sheltered.”
Pope Pius XII lifted the ban on houses of Religious to enable them to house Jewish women, and men, whose lives were under threat.
The Holy Father received the sworn testimony (in German) of the Commandant of Italy and deputy to Heinrich Himmler, General Karl Wolff. The document reveals the plans Wolff was ordered to initiate by Adolf Hitler to invade the Vatican, kill any officials they encountered, and take Pope Pius XII to Lichtenstein for assassination.
This plan was revealed to the Pope in September 1943, one month before the arrest of the Roman Jews. Pope Pius XII wrote his resignation where he stated that if the Vatican were invaded, the Nazis would arrest Eugenio Pacelli, not Pope Pius XII. He then ordered the Cardinals to leave Rome, elect a new pope, and form a government in exile in Portugal.
The name of Pope Pius XII was smeared by the Soviet Union’s KGB disinformation subversion, beginning after his death in 1963. Gary Krupp, President of PTWF, calls this the greatest character assassination of the 20thcentury. Historical evidence shows that the Catholic Church, under the Pontificate of Pius XII, saved an estimated 847,000 Jews during WWII. Mr. Krupp, who is Jewish, stated that “the worst character flaw a Jew can have is ingratitude. It is important for those who are alive today and who have been deceived by Soviet disinformation for five decades now be aware who it was who saved them.”