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The Shoah’s Other Lost Children - What will the opening of sealed Vatican archives reveal about the fate of Jewish children hidden by Catholic communities during the war? By Toni Kamins

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Creato: 21 Maggio 2019
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lost children 2019 05 22 235845On March 4 of this year the Vatican announced that it would finally open the papacy archives of Pius XII, the pope whose tenure from 1939 until 1958, covered the years of the Second World War. This step has been a long time coming and historians hope that it will finally shed light on the actions taken by Pius XII and the Catholic Church as Jews were being rounded up and slaughtered in Europe by Nazi Germany and its collaborators.
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