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Title: A Lovely Memoir
Review: What a lot of nonsense has been written about Pope Pius XII and his role in saving or not saving Rome's Jews. Loy's book is a sad and lovely memoir written by an eyewitness to the changes brought about by the arrival of Fascism in Italy, but it is not a piece of scholarly research and shouldn't be used to destroy the reputation of a man reported to have saved at least 700,000 Jews. Who makes this claim? Jewish historian and Israeli government official Pinchas Lapide in his 1967 book, Three Popes and the Jews. For a credible study of the topic, written by an American rabbi and based on documented research, read The Myth of Hitler's Pope by Rabbi David Dalin, or Pave the Way Foundation's Examining the Papacy of Pius XII, also written by an American Jew.
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