Source: World Jewish Congress
Foundation says documents will show Pius helped Jews
A New York-based foundation says it has documents proving that controversial wartime Pope Pius XII worked to help Jews during the Holocaust. The Pave the Way Foundation said it will release 2,300 pages of documents, dating from 1940-45, which were discovered through the foundation's private research and provide "strong support to the argument that Pope Pius XII worked diligently to save Jews from Nazi tyranny." The Foundation's president, Gary Krupp, said many of the documents were discovered in a monastery in Avellino, Italy. Krupp, who is Jewish, has close ties with the Vatican and twice has been named a Papal knight. He announced last year that Pave the Way, a non-sectarian foundation that promotes interfaith cooperation, would investigate the papacy of Pius XII by interviewing eyewitnesses and gathering publicly available documentation and newspaper accounts. The aim of the investigation is to disprove critics who accuse Pius of having turned a blind eye to Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.