<Ul> <Li> Pope Pius XII, preached against racism in encyclicals like Summi Pontificatus . Used Vatican Radio to denounced race murders and anti-Semitism . Directly lobbied Axis officials to stop Jewish deportations . Opened the sanctuaries of the Vatican to Rome's Jews during the Nazi roundup . </Li> <Li> Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty CBE--Irish Catholic priest who saved more than 6,500 Allied soldiers and Jews; known as the "Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican". Retold in the film The Scarlet and the Black . </Li> <Li> Fillipo Bernardini, papal nuncio to Switzerland . </Li> <Li> Giuseppe Burzio, the Vatican Chargé d'Affaires in Slovakia . Protested the anti-Semitism and totalitarianism of the Tiso regime . Burzio advised Rome of the deteriorating situation for Jews in the Nazi puppet state, sparking Vatican protests on behalf of Jews . </Li> <Li> Angelo Roncalli, the nuncio to Turkey saved a number of Croatian, Bulgarian and Hungarian Jews by assisting their migration to Palestine . Roncalli succeeded Pius XII as Pope John XXIII, and always said that he had been acting on the orders of Pius XII in his actions to rescue Jews . </Li> <Li> Andrea Cassulo, papal nuncio in Romania . Appealed directly to Marshall Antonescu to limit the deportations of Jews to Nazi concentration camps planned for the summer of 1942 . </Li> <Li> Cardinal Gerlier of France refused to hand over Jewish children being sheltered in Catholic homes . In September 1942, Eight Jesuits were arrested for sheltering hundreds of children on Jesuit properties, and Pius XII's Secretary of State, Cardinal Maglione protested to the Vichy Ambassador . </Li> <Li> Giuseppe Marcone, apostolic visitor to Croatia, lobbied Croat regime, saved 1000 Jewish partners in mixed marriages . </Li> <Li> Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac of Zagreb, condemned Croat atrocities against both Serbs and Jews, and himself saved a group of Jews . He declared publicly in the Spring of 1942 that it was "forbidden to exterminate Gypsies and Jews because they are said to belong to an inferior race". </Li> <Li> Bishop Pavel Gojdic protested the persecution of Slovak Jews . Gojdic was beatified by the Church and recognised as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem . </Li> <Li> Angelo Rotta, papal nuncio to Hungary . Actively protested Hungary's mistreatment of the Jews, and helped persuade Pope Pius XII to lobby the Hungarian leader Admiral Horthy to stop their deportation . He issued protective passports for Jews and 15,000 safe conduct passes--the nunciature sheltered some 3000 Jews in safe houses . An "International Ghetto" was established, including more than 40 safe houses marked by the Vatican and other national emblems . 25,000 Jews found refuge in these safe houses . Elsewhere in the city, Catholic institutions hid several thousand more Jewish people . </Li> <Li> Archbishop Johannes de Jong, later Cardinal, of Utrecht, Netherlands, who drew up together with Titus Brandsma O. Carm . († Dachau, 1942) a letter in which he called for all Catholics to assist persecuted Jews, and in which he openly condemned the Nazi German "deportation of our Jewish fellow citizens" (From: Herderlijk Schrijven, read from all pulpits on Sunday 26 January 1942). </Li> <Li> Archbishop Jules - Géraud Saliège of Toulouse--lead a number of French bishops (including Monseigneur Théas, Bishop of Montauban, Monseigneur Delay, Bishop of Marseilles, Cardinal Gerlier, Archbishop of Lyon, Monseigneur Vansteenberghe of Bayonne and Monseigneur Moussaron, Archbishop of Albi--in denouncing roundups and mistreatment of Jews in France, spurring greater resistance . </Li> <Li> Père Marie - Benoît, Capuchin monk who saved many Jews in Marseille and later in Rome where he became known among the Jewish community as "father of the Jews". </Li> <Li> Mother Matylda Getter's Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary sheltered Jewish children escaping the Warsaw Ghetto . Getter's convent rescued more than 750 . </Li> <Li> Alfred Delp S.J., a Jesuit priest who helped Jews escape to Switzerland while rector of St. Georg Church in suburban Munich; also involved with the Kreisau Circle . Executed February 2, 1945 in Berlin . </Li> <Li> Rufino Niccacci, a Franciscan friar and priest who sheltered Jewish refugees in Assisi, Italy, from September 1943 through June 1944 . </Li> <Li> Maximilian Kolbe--Polish Conventual Franciscan friar . During the Second World War, in the friary, Kolbe provided shelter to people from Greater Poland, including 2,000 Jews . He was also active as a radio amateur, vilifying Nazi activities through his reports . </Li> <Li> Bernhard Lichtenberg--German Catholic priest at Berlin's Cathedral . Sent to Dachau because he prayed for Jews at Evening Prayer . </Li> <Li> Sára Salkaházi--a Hungarian Roman Catholic nun who sheltered approximately 100 Jews in Budapest . </Li> <Li> Margit Slachta, of the Hungarian Social Service Sisterhood, went to Rome to encourage papal action against the Jewish persecutions . In Hungary, she had sheltered the persecuted and protested forced labour and antisemitism . In 1944 Pius appealed directly to the Hungarian government to halt the deportation of the Jews of Hungary . The Sisters of Social Service, nuns who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews; included Sister Sara Salkahazi, recognized by Yad Vashem as well as beatified . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Pope Pius XII, preached against racism in encyclicals like Summi Pontificatus . Used Vatican Radio to denounced race murders and anti-Semitism . Directly lobbied Axis officials to stop Jewish deportations . Opened the sanctuaries of the Vatican to Rome's Jews during the Nazi roundup . </Li> <Li> Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty CBE--Irish Catholic priest who saved more than 6,500 Allied soldiers and Jews; known as the "Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican". Retold in the film The Scarlet and the Black . </Li> <Li> Fillipo Bernardini, papal nuncio to Switzerland . </Li>

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