April 13, 1973 • Page Image 5
…THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Documents Show Vatican Failure to Rescue Jews ROME (JTA) — Efforts by Pope Pius XII to rescue baptized Jews from the Nazis and send them to safety in Brazil during the early stages of World War II largely fail- ed because of bureaucratic delays by Brazilian authori- ties and opposition from the Gestapo. That disclosure was contained in one of two volumes of secret wartime documents released by the Vatican April 4 deal...…

















































