New research: Despite anti-Semitism, Catholics helped rescue thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Italy

Many Catholics overcame their antisemitic prejudices to rescue and save Jewish people in danger, “sometimes at the cost of their lives,” some Jewish and Catholic historians said at an international conference.

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