Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty 1898-1963

Early YearsWhen in RomeAfter World War IIDramatisations

The O’Flaherty Family

The Vatican

It was the most gigantic game of hid

and seek

Herbert Kappler

Head of SS and Gestapo in Rome

June 1944 Allies arrived in Rome 6425 escapees were still alive

Of the 9400 Jews in Rome, 1007 had been shipped to Auschwitz

The rest, 5000 were hidden by the official Church3000 hidden in Castel Gandolfo

3700 hidden in Private Homes

These included Jews, British South Africians Russians and Greeks

This is you Life

February 1963 “Had it not been for this gallant gentleman, there

would have been no Rome Escape Organization”

Monsignor Hugh O Flaherty with Sam Derry and Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Show “THIS IS YOUR LIFE”

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Memorial Society

Life size sculptor of the Monsignor to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of his death.

O’Flaherty’s niece: Pearl Dineen

Sculptor: Alan Ryan Hall