Rome, Italy.
Pope Francis visited this Saturday by surprise the Jewish poet of Hungarian origin and Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck in his house Roma, reported today Vatican in a note.
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The visit took place around 16:00 (15:00 GMT), when the pope approached his house Bruck located in the heart of the capital and unleashed the surprise of the people walking in the area at that time, 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 transmitting them to the youngest,” explained the director of the Holy See Press Office in a note, Matteo Bruni.
Vatican newspaper “Roman Observer” he had interviewed her in January Memory Day and the pope was impressed by her testimony, so he decided to meet her this Saturday, reports the Vatican News portal.
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The principal “Roman Observer”, Andrea Monda.
In an interview with the Vatican newspaper, Bruck She described how she was ripped off with her parents and siblings from the house in the rural town where she lived and how a non-Jewish man gave her a food cart to help the persecuted Jews.
He also remembered his time in the concentration camp in Dachau, where he had to dig trenches and where, on one occasion, a German soldier threw a pot into it to wash himself, “But there was little jam left in the depths.” for her, or that other episode in which a German chef left her a comb to put on her new hair, a few moments after she realized that her name was her daughter, says Vatican News.