Pope Francis marked Holocaust Memorial Day on Wednesday, warning that distorted ideologies could pave the way for another genocide.
Francis spoke offhand at the end of his weekly general audience, held in his private library because of coronavirus restrictions, to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, where the Nazis killed more than 1 million Jews and others .
In all, about 6 million European Jews and millions of others were killed by the Germans and their collaborators.
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The Argentine pope insisted on the need to remember, saying it was a sign of humanity and a condition for a peaceful future. But he said that remembering “also means being aware that these things can happen again, based on ideological proposals that intend to save a people and end up destroying a people and humanity”.
He warned that the Holocaust started like this, opening “this path of death, extermination and brutality”.
Francis prayed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial during his 2016 visit to Poland.