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Holocaust memorial chairman thanks pope for opening archives

German Vice Chancellor and Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck, rekindles the Eternal Flame in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, Tuesday, June 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Pope Francis addresses the faithful during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

FILE - Pope Pius XII, wearing the ring of St. Peter, raises his right hand in a papal blessing at the Vatican, in Sept. 1945. The Vatican has long defended its World War II-era pope, Pius XII, against criticism that he remained silent as the Holocaust unfolded, insisting that he worked quietly behind the scenes to save lives. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Kertzer’s “The Pope at War,” which comes out Tuesday, June 7, 2022 in the United States, citing recently opened Vatican archives, suggests the lives the Vatican worked hardest to save were Jews who had converted to Catholicism or were children of Catholic-Jewish “mixed marriages.” (AP Photo, File)

Holocaust memorial chairman thanks pope for opening archives