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  1. Le cardinal Maglione au vicaire apostolique de Shanghai Haouisée

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

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

  2. Le nonce à Berne Bernardini au cardinal Maglione

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • The Nuncio in Bern Bernardini to Cardinal Maglione

    Bernardini informs Maglione that non-Aryan refugees in Switzerland are still waiting for a Brazilian visa.

  3. Mgr Montini à l'internonce à La Haye Giobbe

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Segreteria di Stato
    • Mgr Montini to the inter-nuncio in The Hague Giobbe

    Montini informs Giobbe that the Pope is willing to financially help refugees in the Netherlands despite his limited economical resources.

  4. Notes de la Secrétairerie d'Etat

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    3. Guerra 1939
    • Notes by the Secretariat of State

    The notes list measures that were undertaken by the Holy See Secretariat of State in favour of refugees and war prisoners. Lists of Polish prisoners were sent by apostolic nuncios in Lithuania and Romania; lists of Polish refugees were sent by apostolic nuncios in Latvia, Romania and Hungary. The apostolic nuncios in Germany replied that in the German Reich the Wehrmachtsauskunftsstelle für Kriegsverluste und Kriegsgefangene and the Red Cross are responsible for the issue. It also reports that charity organisations « Oeuvre des Prisonniers » in Lorient (France) and « Aide morale et matériel...

  5. Notes de Mgr Carroll

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • Notes by Mgr Carroll

    Carroll summarises the conversation between Maglione and Taylor about the future of Europe and international relations after the war. Taylor affirms that there is a global agreement, both in Europe and in the USA, that the Pope should blame again inhuman treatments against refugees, hostages and especially Jews in occupied territories.

  6. Le nonce à Berne Bernardini au cardinal Maglione

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • The Nuncio in Bern Bernardini to Cardinal Maglione

    Bernardini reports Maglione the difficulties he is facing in order to help Jewish refugees. Bernardini says he contacted on this matter the Lucerne-based « Unione Svizzera di Carità », and relates that South-American Embassies and Consulates in Switzerland became much stricter on issuing visas, even to Catholics.

  7. L'archevêque d'Utrecht de Jong au pape Pie XII

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Segreteria di Stato
    • The Archbishop of Utrecht de Jong to Pope Pius XII

    De Jong asks pope Pius XII that a part of the donation received from American Jews via the archbishop of Chicago would be given to the Dutch Catholic Committee for Refugees in order to help non-Aryan refugees in the Netherlands.

  8. Le cardinal Maglione aux nonces à Bucarest, Budapest, Kaunas, Riga

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • Cardinal Maglione to nuncios in Bucharest, Budapest, Kaunas, Riga

    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.

  9. La Secrétairerie d'Etat à l'Ambassade du Brésil

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • The Secretariat of State to the Brazilian Embassy

    The Secretariat of State of the Holy See inform the Brazilian Embassy that the inter-nuncio in The Netherlands Mgr Paolo Giobbe wrote that 156 non-Aryan catholic refugees, now hosted in that country, are willing to emigrate to Brasil. The Secretariat of State ask if the Brazilian Embassy in The Hague could grant them visas.

  10. Le grand rabbin Herzog au cardinal MacRory

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • Great Rabbi Herzog to Cardinal MacRory

    Great Rabbi Herzog pleads with Cardinal MacRory for intervention of the Holy Father with Lithuanian Government about the conditions of Polish Jewish refugees, now at Vilna, threatened by forcible repatriation to German and Russian occupation zones. Herzog states that Jewish Relief Organisations are ready to provide their maintenance and to arrange gradual emigration to Palestine and overseas.

  11. La Secrétairerie d'Etat à l'Ambassade du Brésil

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • The Secretariat of State to the Brazilian Embassy

    The Secretariat of State recommends to the Brazilian Embassy 11 non-Aryan catholic refugees in Great Britain willing to emigrate to Brazil.

  12. Le cardinal Maglione à l'internonce à La Haye Giobbe

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • Cardinal Maglione to Inter-nuncio in The Hague Giobbe

    Maglione makes Giobbe known that the Brazilian ambassador in The Hague gave the Brazilian consul in Amsterdam the permission to grant visas to 156 catholic refugees of Jewish origin.

  13. Le president Keller à Mgr Dell'Acqua

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • President Keller to Mgr Dell'Acqua

    Keller asks Dell'Acqua if there is still a possibility to enable mass emigration of Jews to Venezuela.

  14. Le professeur Schmutzer et le P. Strathmann O. P. au Pape Pie XII

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • Professor Schmutzer and Father Strathmann O. P. to Pope Pius XII

    Prof. Schmutzer and the Dominican friar Strathmann write to Pope Pius XII about an International Committee for Catholic refugees. The letter third annexe (A.E.S. 5190/38) is a memorandum written by Pope Pie XII (at that time cardinal Eugenio Pacelli) in 1938, who suggests protecting converted-to-Catholicism Jews who are forced to leave Italy and Germany.