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By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide to 20th Century History since 1997

Letter From Vatican Found About Jewish Children

Sunday January 2, 2005
During World War II, many Catholic organizations hid Jewish children from the Nazis, thus saving them from the Holocaust. But what happened to these children after the war? A 1946 document, recently found in the Vatican archives, says that only Jewish children who had not been baptized could be allowed to go back to surviving family members. Read more about this document and its implications in this great Miami Herald article.

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