Pope Francis kisses Auschwitz death camp tattoo on a survivor's arm
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Rome — Pope Francis shared a tender moment with a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp on Wednesday, bending down to kiss the number tattooed onto her arm by the Nazis when she was just a child.
The leader of the Catholic Church was greeting the faithful after his general audience on Wednesday at the Vatican when he came upon 81-year-old Lidia Maksymowicz. After a Polish priest accompanying Maksymowicz told Francis her story, the survivor rolled up her sleeve to show the pope the number tattooed onto her arm by the Nazis: 70072. Francis bent down to kiss it, and then the two hugged.Noumea — France's president held a flurry of meetings with local representatives in the restive Pacific territory of New Caledonia on Thursday, urging calm after deadly rioting, and vowing thousands of military reinforcements will stay in place to quell what he called an "unprecedented insurrection."
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