Pope Francis on Saturday visited by surprise the Hungarian-born Hebrew poet and Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck at her home in Rome.
The visit took place around 4:00 p.m. (local time), when the Pope approached Bruck’s house located in the heart of the capital and unleashed the surprise of the people who were walking in the area at that time, who He did not hesitate to applaud him and take pictures of him.
The pope and Bruck talked for an hour of the writer’s experience as a Holocaust survivor.
They also evoked the “fears and hopes for the time that we live, underlining the value of memory and the role of the elderly in their transmission to the youngest,” the director of the Holy See Press Office explained in a note, Matteo Bruni.
The Vatican newspaper “L’Osservatore Romano” had interviewed her in January on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance and the pope was impressed by his testimonyFor this reason, this Saturday he decided to meet her, reports the Vatican news portal Vatican News.
The director of “L’Osservatore Romano”, Andrea Monda, was present at the meeting.
Surprise visit by Pope Francis to a Holocaust survivor.
In the interview with the Vatican newspaper, Bruck described how she was ripped together with her parents and siblings from the house in the rural town where she lived and how a non-Hebrew man gave her a food cart to help persecuted Jews.
She also recalled her time working in the Dachau concentration camp, where she had to dig trenches and where on one occasion a German soldier threw his washing pot at her, “but deep down he had left a little jam” for her, or that other episode in which a German cook left him a comb to put on his newly grown hair, moments after realizing that his daughter was named after him, says Vatican News.
Source: EFE.
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