Pope marks 70th anniversary of Rome’s Jews deportation

(see related story on Priebke) (ANSA) – Rome, October 16 – Pope Francis sent a message to Rome’s Jewish community on Wednesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the day the Nazis started rounding up Jews in the city to send them to death camps. “The memory of the tragedies of the past should for all of us become a commitment to work with all our strength for the future that God wants to build for us and with us,” Francis wrote in a message to Rome’s chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, entitled Shalom. “It is our duty to keep before our eyes the destiny of those people who were deported, perceive their pain, their fear, their desperation, in order not to forget it, to keep it alive in our memory and in our prayers, together with their families, their relatives and friends, who cried for the loss and who were appalled by the barbarism that the human being can reach”. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED