U.S. Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950This link opens in a new windowThis publication provides a wealth of unique correspondence, reports and analyses, memos of conversations, and personal interviews exploring such themes U.S.-Vatican relations, Vatican’s role in World War II, Jewish refugees, Italian anti-Jewish laws during the papacy of Pius XII, and the pope’s personal knowledge of the treatment of European Jews as well as the Holocaust and relations with America during the war years and the immediate post-war period.