The Holocaust Diaries

<P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; mso-hyphenate: none><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Book One </FONT></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; mso-hyphenate: none><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>SOULS OF THE JUST</FONT></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; mso-hyphenate: none><FONT size=2><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>         </SPAN>The Holocaust in Rome Italy during World War II</FONT></FONT></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; mso-hyphenate: none><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /><o:p><FONT face=Tahoma size=2> </FONT></o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; mso-hyphenate: none><FONT size=2><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>       </SPAN>In his Map Room in the bowels of the basement of the White House President Roosevelt meets surreptitiously in the early days of 1942 with a coterie of his close friends and associates both Christians and Jews. All are intent on formulating and launching a comprehensive series of actions to save and rescue and preserve the Jews in Europe. </FONT></FONT></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; mso-hyphenate: none><FONT size=2><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>       </SPAN>Dubbed The WEJ they sit dumbfounded as smuggled report after report from inside Nazi-controlled Europe is placed in front of them. Each report details the horrors being inflicted upon European Jewry by Adolf Hitler's minions. The members marvel at the heroic escapades of an anti-Nazi Berlin businessman who risks his life on numerous occasions to bring these reports to neutral Switzerland.</FONT></FONT></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; mso-hyphenate: none><FONT size=2><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>        </SPAN>To authenticate these reports Roosevelt enlarges the WEJ throughout Europe and initiates contacts with anti-German government leaders with members of the Jewish underground and particularly with Pope Pius XII and the Vatican. </FONT></FONT></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; mso-hyphenate: none><FONT size=2><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>       </SPAN>It's not until Roosevelt sends America's first ambassador to the Holy See that he learns of how Pius and the Vatican are thoroughly involved and committed to saving the Jews in Rome itself and in Italy and how Pius agrees with Roosevelt and the WEJ to continue throughout the war and throughout all of Europe to not sit idly by while their brothers in the Jewish faith are in danger.</FONT></FONT></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; mso-hyphenate: none><FONT size=2><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>       </SPAN>Before and after the SS is ordered into Rome by Hitler in October of 1943 to round up the Jews Pius and the Italian government and Roosevelt and the WEJ collaborate and secretly conspire along with the German ambassador to shelter the Jews and save them from complete and utter annihilation.</FONT></FONT></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; mso-hyphenate: none><o:p><FONT face=Tahoma size=2> </FONT></o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-hyphenate: none align=center><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Leo V. Kanawada Jr.</FONT></P>