Selected records from the Vatican Archive collections

Identifier
irn38710
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2009.253
  • RG-76.002
Dates
1 Jan 1922 - 31 Dec 1939
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Italian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn38710

Extent and Medium

40,262 digital images, JPEG

36 DVD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.

Creator(s)

  • Sergio Pagano

Archival History

Archivio Apostolico Vaticano

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

From the Archivio Segreto Vaticano (Vatican Secret Archives). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Program in November 2009.

Scope and Content

Contains records from pontifical representatives, the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, and the archive of the Vatican’s Secretary of State. Includes records representing the Vatican communications with Church representatives in numerous countries, as well as materials from Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli, later Pius XII.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in three series: (A) Pontifical Representatives (alphabetical by geographic location), (B) Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, 1922-1939, and (C) Secretary of State, 1936-1939 (chronological).

People

  • Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958.

Subjects

  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Austria.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--China.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Czechoslovakia.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Switzerland.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--France.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Russia.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Chile.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Italy.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Dominican Republic.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Romania.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Ireland.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--United States.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Belgium.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--England.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Japan.
  • Catholic Church--Diplomatic service.
  • Papacy--History--1929-1945.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Poland.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Yugoslavia.
  • Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Argentina.

Genre

  • Document
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

Copies

  • Archivio Segreto Vaticano

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archivio Segreto Vaticano

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