Not sure if the story about the Pope telling a guy to be proud to be a Jew is verifiable enough to be on Wikipedia    Effectively the only source is one ANONYMOUS article by a person who claims to have been directly involved  Technically there are two articles but the one from  relies only on the one from  as its sole source and does not indicate that the author of the  did any independent research beyond finding the  article on the Internet  Generally Wikipedia does not consider a single unverified firstperson account to be sufficient and that should be especially true when it is anonymous   According to the  article there should be many many witnesses  After  years neither the Pope nor any of the Vatican officials there with him nor any of the  or so visitors waiting has confirmed that this incident ever happened  Some of the witnesses especially the German soldiers might have died before the story was first published  However if it was true there should have been at least some surviving witnesses  The lack of any independent verification makes the entire story rather doubtful