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Pope Pius XII (Resister)

Pope Pius XII was born in 1876 and died in 1958. Throughout the Holocaust Pope Pius was a resister who was able to save lives through his spiritual speeches and through his quotes from the Palms. Also during the Holocaust in March 1939, he obtained 3,000 visas for European Jews to enter Brazil that had been baptized and concerted to Catholicism. Two-thirds of these were later revoked because they started practicing Judaism once in Brazil. The pope had a positive impact on the war because of the hundreds of lives that he saved, and attempted to save, he also made renowned radio broadcast to help ease the minds of European civilians. On the other hand to most victims of the Holocaust he was a bystander who with all his power did not work to his full potential.

__**Resources:**__

·  [|http://en.wikipedia.org]

·  [|http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org]

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