01/07/2026 17:20
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HALL: Pola - A101
Contact:
Jeffres E.
Chair:
Jeffres E.
In March 2019, Pope Francis announced that access to the Vatican's archival materials for the pontificate of Pope Pius XII (1939-1958) would be granted in March 2020. Scholars conducting research in this massive new set of documents, comprising an estimated 16 million pages of material across multiple archives, have made major strides in the last five years. As part of these research efforts, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has been sending a team of scholars and archivists to Vatican City to survey these new materials. Subject to permission by the archives, the USHMM has obtained digital scans of approximately 600,000 pages that are available at the USHMM for research purposes.
This panel consists of the USHMM's Vatican Archives Initiative team and external scholars engaged in research at the Vatican archives. Its goal is to describe the team's research and archival efforts and to share initial findings.
