PIUS XII AND THE HOLOCAUST â€“ WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE VATICAN ARCHIVES?

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Published on Aug 2, 2020
Jews of Yad Vashem unhappy the Pope told no lies, so they're busy trying to build a fairy tale.

The controversy over the issue of the Vatican and Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust continues to split public opinion as well as the academic community. How can we understand the responses of the Vatican to the persecution and murder of the Jews? Should we consider it as a guilty silence and a moral failure, or rather a strategic policy, aimed at rescuing Jews?
Can the Vatican archival collections, recently opened to the scrutiny of scholars, shed new light on many unanswered questions? Can it change our understanding of this still contentious chapter in the history of the Holocaust?
This lecture will address those and other questions, while trying to map the existing knowledge and information and to suggest some directions for future research.
Dr. Iael Nidam-Orvieto is the Director of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem