Auschwitz survivor - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 26 May 2021 23:41:37 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Auschwitz survivor - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pope kisses Holocaust survivor's Auschwitz tattoo https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/05/27/pope-kisses-holocaust-survivors-auschwitz-tattoo/ Thu, 27 May 2021 07:51:40 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=136617 Pope Francis has kissed the tattoo of an Auschwitz survivor during a general audience on Wednesday. Lidia Maksymowicz, 80, a Polish citizen who was deported to Auschwitz from her native Belarus by the age of 3, showed the pope the number tattooed on her arm by the Nazis, and Francis leaned over and kissed it. Read more

Pope kisses Holocaust survivor's Auschwitz tattoo... Read more]]> Pope Francis has kissed the tattoo of an Auschwitz survivor during a general audience on Wednesday.

Lidia Maksymowicz, 80, a Polish citizen who was deported to Auschwitz from her native Belarus by the age of 3, showed the pope the number tattooed on her arm by the Nazis, and Francis leaned over and kissed it.

Maksymowicz told Vatican News that she didn't exchange words with the pope.

"We understood each other with a glance," she said.

Maksymowicz has participated in events sponsored by Sant'Egidio aimed at educating youth about the Holocaust. She spent three years in the children's area of the camp, and was subjected to experiences by Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death." When the camp was freed, she was taken in by a Polish family.

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