Monsignor Ferrofi no stated in a video interview that the Pope sent him to meet with the President of Portugal
to request entrance visas for Jews. Msgr. Ferrofi no commented that he could make the verbal request but
could not express Pius XII’s frustration, where he would slam his hand on the table, saying, “. . . the best
thing is to save as many people from this vibrant community as possible . . .” he lost patience. In other words,
everything possible was to be done. He would get the requested visas.
Monsignor Ferrofi no was then posted to Haiti and the Dominican Republic as the Secretary to the Nuncio
Archbishop Silvani. Msgr. Ferrofi no states that he would physically receive two double-encrypted telegrams
per year directly from Pope Pius XII requesting at least eight hundred visas per telegram. He would personally
decipher these telegrams and, together with Archbishop Silvani, travel one and a half days from Port au
Prince to the Dominican Republic to meet General Rafael Trujillo. Th e Pope’s direct representative asked
“in the name of Pope Pius XII” for at least 1,600 visas for Jews per year between 1939 and 1945. Monsignor
Ferrofi no, who arrived in 1940, would then further route the refugees to the United States, Canada, Mexico,
and Cuba. He saved over eleven thousand Jews.
Source: Pope Pius XII and World War II: The Documented Truth