Pope pays surprise visit to home of elderly Holocaust survivor

Poetess and Holocaust survivor, Edith Bruck, greets Pope Francis in Rome, Italy, February 20, 2021. Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis paid a surprise visit on Saturday to the home of Edith Bruck, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor and author, and paid homage to all those killed by Nazi "insanity".

Bruck, 89, who lives in Rome, was born into a poor Jewish family and spent time in a series of concentration camps, losing her father, mother and brother in them.