 After Pius XII 's death on 9 October 1958 many Jewish organisations and newspapers around the world paid tribute to his legacy . At the United Nations , Golda Meir , Israel 's Foreign Minister , said , " When fearful martyrdom came to our people in the decade of Nazi terror , the voice of the Pope was raised for the victims . The life of our times was enriched by a voice speaking out on the great moral truths above the tumult of daily conflict . " The Jewish Chronicle ( London ) stated on 10 October that " Adherents of all creeds and parties will recall how Pius XII faced the responsibilities of his exalted office with courage and devotion . Before , during , and after the Second World War , he constantly preached the message of peace . Confronted by the monstrous cruelties of Nazism , Fascism and Communism , he repeatedly proclaimed the virtues of humanity and compassion " . In the Canadian Jewish Chronicle ( 17 October ) , Rabbi J. Stern stated that Pius XII " made it possible for thousands of Jewish victims of Nazism and Fascism to be hidden away ... " In the 6 November edition of the Jewish Post in Winnipeg , William Zukerman , the former American Hebrew columnist , wrote that no other leader " did more to help the Jews in their hour of greatest tragedy , during the Nazi occupation of Europe , than the late Pope " . Other prominent Jewish figures , such as Israeli Prime Minister Moshe Sharett and Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog expressed their public gratitude to Pius XII . 
