Edmond Fietovics. were smuggled across the border by Monsignor Vargas underground. In February 1944. when the Nazis took over complete control of Hungary. Monsignor Varga was compelled to go into hiding with a price of $20.000 on his head. For months he remained in hiding. But then the Nazis began rounding up the Jews of Budapest en masse and deporting them in cattlecars to the extermination camps. Cardinal Mindszenty. then Bishop Mindszenty. gave Monsignor Varga the assignment of organizing the clergy and clerical institutions of Budapest in an effort to help save the Jews. Many thousands of them were hidden in the cellars of monasteries and convents and churches.
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