The Jerusalem Post Blogs

Edith Bruck mural by graffiti artist moved to Rome's Museum of the Shoah following vandalism

Despite the vandalism, Bruck maintained a message of peace and forgiveness, stating she holds no resentment or hatred toward those responsible for the act. The mural entitled "The Star of David" Edith ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Lost Bread’ Review: A Child Endures Auschwitz

The 92-year-old Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck is so celebrated in Italy that Pope Francis not only paid her a visit at her home in Rome in 2021, but also invited her to the Vatican and wrote the ...
The Boston Globe

In Edith Bruck’s ‘Lost Bread,’ an account of the Holocaust and its aftermath, cruelty continues for survivors even after Auschwitz is closed

Edith Bruck can capture the eternal desolation of the Holocaust in a few words. In a poem called “The Symbol,” she upends an otherwise calm meditation on how she would like to be remembered ...
Hindustan Times

Pope visits Holocaust survivor in Rome home to thank her

Pope Francis on Saturday visited with a Holocaust survivor in her Rome apartment to pay tribute to all those who suffered from what he called “the craziness of Nazi populism.” Pope Francis and poetess ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Moved by her story, Pope Francis visits Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck at home in Rome

(JTA) — Pope Francis was so moved by reading the testimony of a local Holocaust survivor that he paid the nearly 90-year-old writer a house call this weekend. The pope visited Edith Bruck, who was ...
Rappler

Pope Francis pays surprise visit to home of elderly Holocaust survivor

'I came here to thank you for your witness and to pay homage to the people martyred by the insanity of Nazi populism,' Pope Francis tells Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck Pope Francis paid a surprise ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

Pope Francis visits Holocaust survivor in Rome

World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder applauded the pope for his visit: “I am deeply appreciative of Pope Francis’ tremendous compassion in visiting Edith Bruck, who survived the horror of ...
National Catholic Register

Pope Francis Meets Auschwitz Survivor on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Born in Hungary in 1931, Edith Bruck 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. Pope Francis meets ...
L'Unione Sarda

Edith Bruck: «Shocked to have seen Ilaria Salis in chains»

«I'm not just indignant, I'm shocked, saddened, also because I lived up to 13 years in that country, Hungary. This is why I was doubly struck by the medieval treatment of a woman who participated in ...
Yahoo News Singapore

Pope pays surprise visit to home of elderly Holocaust survivor

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 ...
America Magazine

Pope Francis pays surprise visit to the home of poet and Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck

Pope Francis talks with Edith Bruck, a Holocaust survivor and author, during a visit to her home in central Rome Feb. 20. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) ROME (CNS) — A month after reading an interview in ...