Pope Francis on Wednesday marked Holocaust Remembrance Day by warning that distorted ideologies could pave the way for another genocide.
Francis spoke at the end of his weekly public hearing in his private library about coronavirus restrictions, commemorating the 76th anniversary of the liberation from the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, where Nazis killed more than 1 million Jews and others. .
In total, about 6 million European Jews and millions of other people were killed by the Germans and their collaborators.
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The Argentine pope insisted it was important to remember and said it was a sign of humanity and a condition for a peaceful future. But he says remembering “also means being aware that these things can happen again, starting with ideological proposals that claim to save a nation and ultimately destroy a nation and humanity.”
He warned that the Holocaust had begun that way and opened “this path of death, extermination and brutality”.
Francis prayed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial during the 2016 visit to Poland.