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Fewer and fewer of them each year. Those still living today were prisoners as small children.
During the general audience, Pope Francis kissed the tattoo of a Polish woman who survived the Auschwitz death camp
Kazimierz SikorskiKazimierz SikorskiMay 26, 2021, 19:45
© Alessia Giuliani / CPP / IPA / Press Association / East News
Lidia Maksymowicz, a Polish national who was sent to Auschwitz from her native Belarus as a three-year-old girl, showed the Pope a number tattooed on her arm by the Nazis, and Franciszek leaned down and kissed him.
Maksymowicz told Vatican News that she had not exchanged a word with the Pope. We understood each other at first sight - she said.
Maksymowicz took part in events sponsored by Sant'Egidio, aimed at educating young people about the Holocaust. She spent three years in the zone of the children's extermination camp and was subjected to the experiences of Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death". After the camp was released, she was taken in by a Polish family.
The Pope paid tribute to the survivors of the Holocaust in the past, in 2014 he visited the Yad Vashem museum in Israel. He was also in the Roman apartment of the 88-year-old Hungarian writer and poet Edith Bruck, who survived the extermination camp.
During the hour-long visit, Francis told the woman: I
sincerely repeat the words I spoke from my heart at Yad Vashem and repeat to every person who has suffered so much like you: Forgive me, Lord, on behalf of humanity.
polskatimes.pl/papiez-franciszek-ucalowal-podczas-audiencji-generalnej-tatuaz-polki-ocalalej-z-obozu-smierci-w-auschwitz/ar/c1-15632890
During the general audience, Pope Francis kissed the tattoo of a Polish woman who survived the Auschwitz death camp
Kazimierz SikorskiKazimierz SikorskiMay 26, 2021, 19:45
© Alessia Giuliani / CPP / IPA / Press Association / East News
Lidia Maksymowicz, a Polish national who was sent to Auschwitz from her native Belarus as a three-year-old girl, showed the Pope a number tattooed on her arm by the Nazis, and Franciszek leaned down and kissed him.
Maksymowicz told Vatican News that she had not exchanged a word with the Pope. We understood each other at first sight - she said.
Maksymowicz took part in events sponsored by Sant'Egidio, aimed at educating young people about the Holocaust. She spent three years in the zone of the children's extermination camp and was subjected to the experiences of Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death". After the camp was released, she was taken in by a Polish family.
The Pope paid tribute to the survivors of the Holocaust in the past, in 2014 he visited the Yad Vashem museum in Israel. He was also in the Roman apartment of the 88-year-old Hungarian writer and poet Edith Bruck, who survived the extermination camp.
During the hour-long visit, Francis told the woman: I
sincerely repeat the words I spoke from my heart at Yad Vashem and repeat to every person who has suffered so much like you: Forgive me, Lord, on behalf of humanity.
polskatimes.pl/papiez-franciszek-ucalowal-podczas-audiencji-generalnej-tatuaz-polki-ocalalej-z-obozu-smierci-w-auschwitz/ar/c1-15632890