THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14 Friday, August 22, 1980
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Priest Defends Pope Pius' Rescue of Jews
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PHILADELPHIA (JTA) priesthood in Rome.
— A retired priest of the Al-
Schiarrone stated that in
lentown, Pa., diocese has de- December 1940, after the
fended the record of Pope signing of an armistice be-
Pius XII in helping Jews tween Italy and Vichy,
during World War II. France, he went by train
Father Rosario Schiarrone from Turin to Kisbon, "the
offered this defense in the second train since the armi-
Catholic Standard and stice, from Turin to Lisbon.
Times, the newspaper of the The Perio Travel Agency of
Philadelphia Archdiocese.
Turin was in charge of the
The priest said he had trip. The train was filled
been motivated to write by with refugees, 99 percent of
statements in a recent book them Jews."
by Father John Morlet,
- He wrote that in his com-
"Vatican Diplomacy and partment "there was a fam-
the Jews During the ily of Jews — father, mother
Holocaust," that Pope Pius and three small children.
XII did not give enough help They told me that they
to Jews in that period.
would be eternally grateful
Schiarrone wrote he had to the Pope and the Vatican
firsthand knowledge that for making is possible for
"Pope Pius XII and the Vat- them to leave war-torn
ican did give aid to hun- Europe. The Pope was Pius
dreds of Jews with whom I XII."
Schiarrone added that
personally had contact from
late December 1940 until on the liner, Excambion,
on which he sailed from
the end of January 1941."
He wrote that at that Lisbon, 85 percent of the
time he was returning to passengers were Jews
the United States and and "from these, too, I
finishin • studies for the heard much praise for
the Vatican and the Pope
without whom they said
they would not have been
on their way to America.
Some had even been shel-
tered and fed in the Vati-
can while they were
awaiting escape from
Europe."
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