Pope Francis (L) delivers a speech as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I (R) listens during a meeting on May 25, 2014 at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City.
Jerusalem:
Pope Francis on Monday denounced the "abyss" of the Nazi genocide which claimed the lives of six million Jews as he visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.
Speaking at a solemn ceremony at the Hall of Remembrance after meeting survivors, he spoke of "the boundless tragedy of the Holocaust" describing it as an "unfathomable abyss".
Inside the long, dark stone room with an angled roof, Francis spoke at a podium next to giant marble slab on which were engraved the names of 22 of the Nazi camps where millions were exterminated throughout Europe during World War II.
At the ceremony, a choir of school children dressed in yellow and black sang several famous Israeli songs, including a poem written by a young Jewish woman who was killed while on a mission to try and rescue Hungarian Jews due to be deported to the death camp Auschwitz.
Speaking at a solemn ceremony at the Hall of Remembrance after meeting survivors, he spoke of "the boundless tragedy of the Holocaust" describing it as an "unfathomable abyss".
Inside the long, dark stone room with an angled roof, Francis spoke at a podium next to giant marble slab on which were engraved the names of 22 of the Nazi camps where millions were exterminated throughout Europe during World War II.
At the ceremony, a choir of school children dressed in yellow and black sang several famous Israeli songs, including a poem written by a young Jewish woman who was killed while on a mission to try and rescue Hungarian Jews due to be deported to the death camp Auschwitz.
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