Pope makes historic visit to Auschwitz concentration camp

July 29, 2016 23:21

Pope Francis made a historic visit Friday to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the notorious former German Nazi concentration camp in Poland, to pay tribute to the more than 1 million people, mostly Jews, who lost their lives there in the Holocaust.

The Pope arrived early Friday for his first trip to Auschwitz and sat alone for some time by a tree in solemn reflection. He was surrounded by piles of rubble -- destroyed gas chambers once used to put Jews to death during World War II.

Francis is the third Pope to visit the site of wartime torture and killings, and the trip comes after he made a stern warning this week that "the world is at war."

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