Rome, Italy.
The Pope Francisco Surprisingly visited the Hebrew poet of Hungarian descent and Holocaust survivor on Saturday Edith Bruck in his house Roma, reported today Vatican in a note.
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The visit took place around 4:00 pm (3:00 pm GMT), when the Pope left the house Bruck located in the heart of the capital and unleashed the surprise of the people walking through the area at the time, who did not hesitate to applaud and take pictures of it.
The Pope and Bruck spent an hour talking about the writer’s experience as a Holocaust survivor.
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They also evoked “fears and hope for the time when we are alive, underscoring the value of memory and the role of the elderly in their transmission to the youngest,” said Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See’s news agency.
The Vatican Newspaper “The Osservatore Romano” had interviewed her in January on the occasion of Remembrance Day and the Pope was impressed by her testimony, so this Saturday he decided to meet with her, the Vatican news portal Vatican News reports.
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The director of “The Osservatore Romano”, Andrea Monda.
In the interview with the Vatican newspaper, Bruck She described how she was ripped out of the house in the rural town where she lived, along with her parents and siblings, and how a non-Hebrew man gave her a food cart to help persecuted Jews.
He also remembered his time in the concentration camp Dachauwhere he had to dig trenches and where once a German soldier threw his ladle at him to wash, “But deep down there was still a little bit of jam” for her, or that other episode where a German cook left her a comb to put on her newly grown hair right after she realized her daughter was named, Vatican News says.