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30.7.2016. 9:27
Papa u Auschwitzu
 
Pope Francis pays silent but ‘important’ visit to Auschwitz


Pope Francis visiting Auschwitz. (Screenshot from YouTube)



On Friday, The Associated Press reported, the pope prayed in silent contemplation before meeting Holocaust survivors in front of the death wall where the Nazis summarily shot thousands of people.



(JTA) — Pope Francis visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi death camp in Poland, in what the World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said was an “important signal to the world.” Among the survivors he met were Helena Dunicz Niwinska, a 101-year-old woman who played the violin in the Auschwitz orchestra, as well as survivors who worked at the camp hospital or who were there as children. Francis lit a candle in front of the death wall, bowing his head in prayer before visiting the cell of Polish priest and saint Maximilian Kolbe who died at Auschwitz after taking the place of a condemned man.

Papa Franjo  (Francis) je posjetio prijašnji nacistički logor smrti  Auschwitz-Birkenau, što je prema riječima  Ronalda Laudera  , predsjednika Svjetskog židovskog kongresa,  vrlo važni signal cijelom svijetu. 


Među onima koji su preživjeli Holokaust, koje je papa susreo, bila je 101 godinu stara  Helena Dunicz Niwinska, koja je svirala violinu o orkestru logora  kao i drugi preživjeli koji su radili u logorskoj bolnici ili su tada bili djeca.


 Papa je zapalio svijeću pred "Zidom smrti", sagnuvši glavu u molitvi, prije nego je posjetio ćeliju poljskog svećenika i sveca  Maximiliana Kolbea koji je umro u Auschwitzu nakon što je zauzeo mjesto drugog  optuženog čovjeka. Posjeta je pala na 75-godišnjicu  kada je Kolbe osuđen na smrt.


Papa je,  prije posjete logoru , kazao da će umjesto držanja govora stajati u tišini kako bi osjetio strahotue koje su počinjene  i kako bi pistio svoje suze da teku.


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After arriving Wednesday in Poland, the pontiff said the world had been plunged into a piecemeal third world war. He has repeatedly denounced those committing crimes in the name of religion, after Europe suffered a string of deadly jihadist attacks.

In a statement Friday, Lauder praised the pontiff, who has forged ever-closer ties between the Catholic Church and Jews since his election in 2013.
”  The pope’s visit “sends an important signal to the world that this dark chapter must never be forgotten and that the truth about what happened seven decades ago must not be obfuscated,” Lauder added.

“Pope Francis is one of the closest allies Jews have today in the fight against anti-Semitism, bigotry and hatred,” Lauder said. “He is a true friend of the Jewish people, a man who reaches out to others and embraces them. Never over the past 2,000 years have Catholic-Jewish relations been better.