Rome Italy.
the Pope Francis has visited this Saturday by surprise the Hebrew poetess of Hungarian origin and survivor of the Holocaust Edith Bruck the house of Rome, Reported today the Vatican on a note.
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The visit took place around 4pm (3pm GMT), when the pope approached the house of Bruck located in the center of the capital and triggered the surprise of people walking at the time in the area, who did not hesitate to applaud and take pictures.
Pope and Bruck talked for an hour about the writer’s experience as a Holocaust survivor.
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They also evoked “fears and hopes for the time we live in, emphasizing the value of memory and the role of the elderly in their transmission to the youngest,” the director of the Press Office explained in a note of the Holy See, Matteo Bruni.
The Vatican newspaper “The Roman Observer” I had interviewed him in January on the occasion of the Remembrance Day and the pope was impressed by her testimony, so this Saturday he decided to meet her, reports the Vatican news portal Vatican News.
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The director of “The Roman Observer”, Andrea Monda.
In the interview with the Vatican newspaper, Bruck describe how she was uprooted along with her parents and siblings from the house in the rural village where she lived and how a man who was not Jewish gave her a grocery cart to help the persecuted Jews.
He also recalled his time working in the concentration camp of Dachau, Where he had to dig trenches and where on one occasion a German soldier threw his jar for washing, “But deep down I had left some jam” for her, or that other episode in which a German cook left her a comb to put on her newly grown hair, moments after realizing she was called like her daughter, Vatican News reports.