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As World War II looms, Pope Pius XI calls on a humble American priest to help him challenge the evils of Nazism and anti-Semitism. But death intervenes, and Pope Pius XII now carries out a very different response to Hitler and the Holocaust.

Though mostly forgotten today, American Jewish sculptor Moses Ezekiel was a lauded 19th century sculptor and a complicated figure, one whose sculptures play a role in the current debate on the removal of Confederate monuments.

In the spring of 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus embarked on a risky and unlikely mission. Traveling into the heart of Nazi Germany, they rescued 50 Jewish children from Vienna and brought them to the United States.