taken from www.h2onews.org
Pius XII created an underground network to save the lives of Jews persecuted by the Nazis. One of the members of this network is still alive: it is the Italian priest Giancarlo Centioni, class of 1912. From 1940 to 1945 was a military chaplain in Rome of the Voluntary Militia for National Security and lived in a house of the German priests involved in the rescue network.
"So my fellow priests Pallottines, who came from Hamburg, had founded a company called" Raphael's Verein (Society of San Raffaele), which had been set up to help the Jews. "
This network passport delivery and money to Jewish families to flee.
"The money and passports were given by Father Anton Weber, and were delivered to people. But he obtained them directly from the Secretary of State of His Holiness, by name and on behalf of Pius XII. "
interventions of this network began even before the German invasion of Italy.
"I started before the war, lasted at least as far as I know, even after '45, because the relationship with Weber's father, especially, were very much alive ... Vatican, with the Jews ... a lot of good people. Including those who have helped us then we hid two Jewish: a writer (Melchior), Joy, and a great musician and composer in Vienna in time, writing songs and was the operetta, Erwin Frimm Kozab. I hid it from Via Giuseppe, Via Bari, the other in Via Pettinari 57, and they helped us a lot by giving precise directions, etc.. etc. ".
Don Centioni ensures that hundreds of people who could help were aware of who was behind all this.
"They helped Pius XII, by priests, through the" Raphael's Verein ", through the Divine Word Society of Germany in Rome." [read more]
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