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The Finaly Affair was a legal dispute over the custody and kidnapping of Robert and Gerald Finaly, two Jewish children whose parents were murdered in the Holocaust. The fight for custody resulted in kidnapping charges against Antoinette Brun, the children's war-time guardian who defied court orders to surrender the boys to their surviving relatives after World War II. Catholic clergy members were also charged with kidnapping after hiding the children in Catholic institutions.
The Finaly case was widely reported in the French press. In 2020, materials released as part of the Pope Pius XII Archive revealed that the Pope had personally encouraged Brun to resist returning the boys to their family.