Sitting with head bowed and eyes closed, Pope Francis has paid silent tribute to the victims of one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. The Pope arrived on Friday at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp, an area now blanketed by green fields and empty barracks lined by barbed wire fences.
The camp was the Nazis’ largest and consisted of three parts: Auschwitz I, where many were imprisoned and murdered; the Birkenau extermination camp, also known as Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III (Auschwitz-Monowitz), an area of auxiliary camps that included several factories.
