Israel expressed “shock” today at the Vatican’s decision to boycott a ceremony at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, this weekend because of an exhibit accusing Pius XII, the wartime pontiff, of turning a blind eye to the Nazi extermination of the Jews.
Monsignor Antonio Franco, the papal nuncio (ambassador) in Israel, said he would refuse to participate in the annual memorial service for the victims of the Holocaust at Yad Vashem as long as the museum continued to display a photograph of Pius XII with a caption saying he had “recognised” the Nazi regime and done nothing to condemn the Shoah, or Holocaust.
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April 12, 2007
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