Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy. Margherita Marchione, Ph.D. Paulist Press, 1997. Hard cover with dust jacket. 259pp.
A member of the Religious Teachers Filippini who have a house on via Bottega Oscure, a few blocks from the Jewish Ghetto and from which they had sheltered 114 Jews from 1943-44.
Sister Marchione had made it her personal quest to demonstrate the enormous extent to which Pius XII helped Jews during WWII, and claims pressure from the international Jewish community is a major contributing factor to the Vatican’s failure to beatify Pius XII. She has launched numerous appeals to Yad Vashem to change its present unflattering characterization of Pius XII and declare the wartime pope a “Righteous Gentile”. Marchione has interviewed scores of elderly Italian Jews who expressed gratitude to the pope for the fact that they were hidden in Vatican institutions during that period. 
This book has some of those extensive interviews with Italian Jews as well as many never seen before photos of the period. Covers Italian Jews not only in Rome, but also Milan, Ferrara, Assisi, Genoa, Florence, and Venice. Appendixes include names of persons hidden in the Vatican; Institutions in Rome and the number of Jewish Reugees they helped; Rescue Network Report; Statistics by Country, and extensive index.
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