Pope kisses concentration camp tattoo on survivor's arm


  • World
  • Wednesday, 26 May 2021

Pope Francis greets a Holocaust survivor Lidia Maksymowicz after the weekly general audience at the San Damaso courtyard, at the Vatican, May 26, 2021. REUTERS/Remo Casilli

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis kissed the number tattooed on the arm of a survivor of medical experiments at the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp when she was introduced to him on Wednesday.

The pope listened intently as a Polish priest who accompanied Lidia Maksymowicz, 80, told him of her story.

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