Rome, Italy, Feb 20, 2021 / 11:05 am
Pope Francis on Saturday visited the home of the writer and Holocaust survivor Edith Steinschreiber Bruck in Rome.
The 89-year-old Bruck is Hungarian-born, but has lived in Italy since her early 20s. She survived the Nazi concentration camps in Auschwitz and Dachau, where she was sent with her parents, two brothers, and a sister at the age of 12.
Her parents and one brother died in the concentration camps. Bruck and her remaining siblings were freed from the Bergen-Belsen camp by the Allies in 1945.
According to the Vatican, in a meeting of around one hour on Feb. 20, Bruck and the pope spoke about "those moments of light which marked the experience of the hell of the concentration camps."