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• Holy See Diplomatic Missions

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• 02
• Italian
• Updated 6 years ago

The Archives hold records produced by the Holy See's diplomatic relations with civil governments (foreign countries, including Italy, and international organisations).

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2. Archivi delle Rappresentanze Pontificie

• Archive of the Apostolic Nuncio in Berlin

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• arch_nunz_berlino
• English
• Updated 6 years ago

Contains records of the Berlin nunciature of Eugenio Pacelli, letters from the Secretariat of State to the German Roman-Catholic bishops, reports, correspondence and information from the German diocesans.

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2. Archivi delle Rappresentanze Pontificie

• Archive of the Apostolic Nuncio in Italy

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• arch_nunz_italia
• English
• Updated 6 years ago

Contains correspondance between the Secretariat of State and the Nuncio about Italian racial laws, the status of Non-Aryan Italian Catholics and Italian Catholics with Jewish origins.

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2. Archivi delle Rappresentanze Pontificie

• Archive of the Apostolic Nuncio in Munich

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• arch_nunz_monaco
• English
• Updated 6 years ago

Contains records of the Munich nunciature of both Eugenio Pacelli and Alberto Vasallo-Torregrossa relating to Anti-Semitism and the persecution of Jews in Bavaria.

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2. Archivi delle Rappresentanze Pontificie

• Archive of the Apostolic Nuncio in Paris

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• arch_nunz_parigi
• English
• Updated 6 years ago

Contains records of the Apostolic Nuncio in Paris relating to foreign political affairs. Includes hanwritten notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings and other materials of Mons. Valerio Valeri, Apostolic Nuncio to France in Paris. Holocaust-relevant material includes: I. Archivio della Nunziatura Apostolica in Parigi, indice 1086 Mons. Valerio Valeri, 1921-1944; II. b. 608 Nunziatura Valeri, Titolo XII, Affari Politici Estero, Fasc. 827 : FF. 1-37; b. 611 Nunziatura Valeri, Titolo XIII, Affari Politici di Fracia Fasc 883-886, Fasc. 883: ff. 1-123; Fasc. 886: ff. 1-131; III. b. 613 Nunzia...

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2. Archivi delle Rappresentanze Pontificie

• Archive of the Apostolic Nuncio in Vienna

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• arch_nunz_vienna
• English
• Updated 6 years ago

Contains a telegram, letters and posters sent to Gaetano Cicognani, Apostolic Nuncio in Vienna (1935-1938) and to Pope XI, from Josef Moses Krumer, as well includes Krumer's three published books in Hebrew relating to his predictions of catastrophe for the Jewish people.

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2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• Cardinal Maglione to apostolic delegate in London Godfrey

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 5475/40, minute
• English
• 1940
• Not available.
• Updated 6 years ago

Maglione updates Godfrey about 11 Catholics of Jewish origins living in the United Kingdom and willing to emigrate to Brazil. Maglione says that these people have to contact their competent consulate. Maglione also informs Godfrey that the Brazilian Embassy stated that no visas will be granted to Jews who were baptised after 1937.

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2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• Cardinal Maglione to the Nuncio in Berlin Orsenigo

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 8113/42
• English
• 1942
• Updated 6 years ago

Maglione asks Orsenigo to have more information on limitation to holy sacraments in occupied territories, namely in Warthegau, where adults cannon be baptised without a special authorisation, which is however not delivered because of the Jews.

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2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• Cardinal Maglione to the Nuncio in Berlin Orsenigo

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 5582/39, minute
• English
• 1939
• Updated 6 years ago

Maglione reports Orsenigo about Brazil granting 3000 visas to German Jewish Catholics, namely about making immigration economical conditions easier.

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2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• The Cardinal Maglione to Nuncio in Berlin Orsenigo

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 1968/40
• English
• 1940
• Unavailable.
• Updated 6 years ago

Cardinal Maglione informs Orsenigo that the Pope, responding to Father Grösser's last visit to Rome, decided to reserve 30 000 dollars to Raphaelsverein. This amount will be used to: - help non-Aryan Germans (including non-catholic non-Aryan Germans); - facilitate the emigration to Brasil of 3 000 catholic non-Aryan Germans. Cardinal Maglione says that the Brazilian Ambassador told him that baptised Jews only will be admitted.

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2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• Cardinal Maglione to the Nuncio in France Valeri

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 7670/39, minute
• English
• 1939
• Updated 6 years ago

Maglione informs Valeri about the ongoing issues concerning the possibility that Brazil will grant 3000 visas to non-Aryan Catholic Germans.

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2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• Cardinal Maglione to the Nuncio to Italy Borgongini Duca

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 1555/39 (Nunziatura d'Italia 6815)
• English
• 1939
• Updated 3 years ago

Maglione asks Borgongini Duca to invite Italian authorities to consider catechumenate, instead of baptism, as proof of Catholic faith.

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2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• Cardinal Maglione to the Nuncio in Italy Borgongini Duca

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 5425/39, minute
• English
• 1939
• Updated 6 years ago

Maglione writes Borgongini Duca about which steps are to be taken to the Italian government in order to let non-Aryan Italian Jews attending Catholic schools or marrying Aryans. Borgongini Duca and Tacchi Venturi should work together, so said the Pope.

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2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• Cardinal Maglione to the Nuncio in Italy Borgongini Duca

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S 2255/39
• English
• 1939
• Updated 6 years ago

Maglione asks Borgongini Duca to speak in favour of converted-to-Catholicism Italian Jews to the competent Italian ministry about the project of law regulating and forbidding the practice of several professions.

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2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• Cardinal Maglione to the Nuncio in Italy Borgongini Duca

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 8224/39
• English
• 1939
• Updated 6 years ago

Maglione informs Borgongini Duca about the talk he had with Frank van Gheel Gildemeester, founder of the « Gildemeester-Europaeische Auswanderungshilfsaktion » for rescuing Jews.

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2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• Cardinal Maglione to the Nuncio to Poland in Bucharest Cortesi

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 13/40
• English
• 1940
• Updated 6 years ago

Maglione informs Cortesi that German authorities may reserve the region of Lublin to Jews from the Reich, the Protectorate and Poland.

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2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 4452/39
• English
• 1939
• One draft paper letter.
• Updated 6 years ago

Maglione informs Haouisée that the Pope extremely approves aid activities carried out by Catholics in Shanghai towards Jewish refugees.

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2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• Cardinal Maglione to nuncios in Bucharest, Budapest, Kaunas, Riga

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 6955/39
• English
• 1939
• Not available.
• Updated 6 years ago

Maglione informs nuncios in Bucharest, Budapest, Kaunas, Riga that the Holy See Secretariat of State is creating an intelligence service in order to collect information about war prisoners and refugees. Addressees are invited to cooperate.

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2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• Apostolic Delegate to Turkey Roncalli to Cardinal Maglione

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 10660/40, Rap. nr. 3325
• English
• 1940
• Updated 6 years ago

Roncalli informs Maglione that he got a message from von Papen just after his return to Turkey. Roncalli also speaks about internally-displaced Christians and Jews in Turkey. Roncalli says that they are now located close to Istanbul, and that their conditions considerably improved.

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2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• The Nuncio in Berlin Orsenigo to Cardinal Maglione

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 8682/39, Rap. nr. 248 (29.565)
• English
• 1939
• Updated 6 years ago

Orsenigo informs Maglione that two convents in Lviv were suppressed, friars dispersed, and the buildings given to Jews. He says that 300 000 Jews would have moved from German-occupied Poland to Russian-occupied Poland.