Mary Ball Martinez

The Last Days of the Romanovs, by Robert Wilton. Introduction by Mark Weber. Institute for Historical Review, 1993. Softcover. 194 (+ xvii) pages. Photographs. Map. Index. ISBN 0-939484-47-1. (Available from the IHR for $12.95, plus $2 shipping.) Mary Ball Martinez was an accredited member of the Vatican press corps from …

Since the 1960s, it has been increasingly fashionable to condemn Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) – who was Pope from 1939 until 1958 – for his alleged indifference to the fate of Europe’s Jews during the Second World War. Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles, for …