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ROME (AP): Researchers have discovered new documentation that substantiates reports that Catholic convents and monasteries in Rome sheltered Jews during World War II, providing names of at least 3,200 Jews whose identities have been corroborated by...

ROME — Researchers have discovered new documentation that substantiates reports that Catholic convents and monasteries in Rome sheltered Jews during World

Newly discovered documents at the Vatican reveal that Catholic institutions in Rome sheltered many Jewish people from the Nazis during World War II. The never-before-seen documents were unearthed in the archives of the Pontifical Biblical Institute (known as the Biblicum) as part of ext...

Researchers have discovered new documentation that substantiates reports that Catholic convents and monasteries in Rome sheltered Jews during World War II, providing names of at least 3,200 Jews whose identities have been corroborated by the citys Jewish community, officials said Thursday.

Report from Yad Vashem, the Vatican, Italian Jewish community says at least that number were protected by church; sheds no new light on Pope Pius XII's role during Nazi occupation

The rediscovery of a historical list that was considered lost names 3200 Jews that were sheltered by religious Congregations in Rome during the Holocaust.

The names were found in documents recently studied by the Vatican, but historians say they don’t change the fundamental understanding of the church’s actions during the war.