 In 1942 , the Slovak chargé d 'affaires told Pius that Slovak Jews were being sent to concentration camps . On 11 March 1942 , several days before the first transport was due to leave , the chargé d 'affaires in Bratislava reported to the Vatican : " I have been assured that this atrocious plan is the handwork of ... Prime Minister ( Tuka ) , who confirmed the plan ... he dared to tell me — he who makes such a show of his Catholicism — that he saw nothing inhuman or un @-@ Christian in it ... the deportation of 80 @,@ 000 persons to Poland , is equivalent to condemning a great number of them to certain death . " The Vatican protested to the Slovak government that it " deplore ( s ) these ... measures which gravely hurt the natural human rights of persons , merely because of their race . " 
