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Thursday 02 May |

World War II

Pope Pius XII writes one of his wartime Christmas radio messages using a typewriter at the Vatican in this undated photo.

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Pope Francis asks that full Pius XII archives be digitalized, published

Cerith Gardiner

What one of the last Tuskegee airmen wants for his 100th birthday

Kathleen N. Hattrup

Stop! War is not the solution, war is a monster: Pope Francis stresses worry of WWIII

Theresa Civantos Barber

Meet the Auschwitz survivor who’s gone viral on TikTok

Zelda Caldwell

Read J.R.R. Tolkien’s response to a Nazi-allied publisher who asked for proof of his “Aryan descent”

Sandra Ferrer

Stefania Łącka: The daring woman who baptized babies and survived Auschwitz

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Agnieszka Bugała

Born in Auschwitz and hidden in a footstool: “I suckled fear along with my mother’s milk”

Cerith Gardiner

Missing letter from WWII finally delivered 76 years later

Philip Kosloski

“Year of Edith Stein” celebrates 100 years since her baptism

Mark Haas

When Maria von Trapp was faced with abortion and Hitler

Larry Peterson

He saved so many Jews from the Nazis he was known as the “Angel of Rome”

John Burger

The Japanese war pilot who came to Pearl Harbor to apologize

J-P Mauro

New Yorker amasses collection of 4,000 dreidels from pre-WWII

Lucien de Guise

This cross was chosen by Charles de Gaulle as a response to Hitler’s swastika

Agnès Pinard Legry

The Jewish man saved from the Nazis by a cardinal, a monsignor, and a diplomat

Francisco Veneto

Holocaust survivor sends letter of gratitude to Pope Francis

Pope Francis stands by graves with flowers at the French military cemetery

Kathleen N. Hattrup

The graves cry out for peace: Pope visits military cemetery for All Souls Day

Camille de Longvilliers

A life full of contagious love: Holocaust survivor Magda Hollander-Lafon

Philip Kosloski

This Italian priest was killed for helping Jews in WWII

Sandra Ferrer

The heroic doctor who helped nuns who were sexually assaulted at the end of WW2

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