Pope Pius XII Savior of the Jews?

Even until this day controversy rages if this Pontiff truly saved Jews during the Holocaust in the countless thousands. The answer is resoundingly yes and his silence was self imposed through the fear of anti Catholic and anti Jewish reprisals. A truthful film concerning the Pontiff was the film The Red and the Black with Gregory Peck and Sir Michael Gielgud as Pius XII . He arranged clandestine safe houses, namely monasteries and convents to shelter and house countless Jewish children and abundant proof attests to his lifesaving efforts. Some references will prove in order:

http://catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12994 note the attached video presentation here

http://popepiusxiiandthejews.blogspot.com/ A plethora of articles and news clips with factual allusions attest to his rescue efforts and rescue work in general .

Letter from Rabbi André Zaoui, http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-24162 This letter and many more such documents attests to the Pontiff's lifesaving work. If ever someone deserved canonization, he does.

I honor and deem him a hero and among the blessed.

Also I will never ever forget the Jesuits heroic deeds in that era

The Jesuits hide and Rescue the Jews during the Holocaust

The Jesuits rescue and hiding of Jews in Italy during the holocaust is well known in some circles, now in many more circles than formerly.
The following post amply demonstrates their heroic stand.
http://www।firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=5551


As partial explanation for the unbalanced impression many have of “Catholic indifference and inaction,” Lapomarda refers to the postwar Stalinist policy in Eastern Bloc countries. The Communist governments that took over these countries after 1945 consistently spread lies to the effect that Catholic authorities had collaborated with the Nazis during wartime occupations. When church leaders sought to correct such false accusations by bringing evidence before the people, they were usually thrown into prison or hunted down as traitors to their country. The result, says Lapomarda, “has been a silence so tight that the truth about much of the heroic efforts of various individuals in the Nazi era has been neglected. . . .” Lapomarda’s work is one of the first to breach that silence, especially with regard to the situations in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Baltic states, Yugoslavia, and Russia. He outlines in separate chapters the persecution of the Jesuits and their role in inspiring and sustaining Church resistance in Germany and throughout the different nations of occupied Europe.



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