Pope Makes Silent Pilgrimage to Auschwitz

Pope Francis silently walked Friday beneath the notorious sign at the Polish death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. With his head bowed and dressed in white, the pontiff walked under the sign that bears the words "Arbeit Macht Frei" or "Work Sets You Free."  More than a million people, most of them Jews, were killed at the camp by Nazis during World War II. In the camp's barracks, he sat on a bench in silent contemplation. Later, Francis - the leader of the...

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