Pope Francis called on Edith Bruck, the 88-year-old Hungarian-born Italian poet, playwright, director, novelist, and translator who survived Auschwitz, Dachau, Christianstadt, and Bergen-Belsen.
A communiqué from the Press Office of the Holy See said the visit lasted about an hour. “The conversation with the pope revisited those moments of light, with which the experience of the hell of the camps was interspersed,” the communiqué said.
“ evoked the fears and hopes for the time in which we live, stressing the value of memory and the role of the elderly in cultivating and passing it on to younger generations.”
