François and Edith … the embodiment of human fraternity

It does not hurt us in the Arab world to say that the Holocaust to which European Jews were victims in the first half of the 20th century was one of the most stigmata in human history. When the Jews of Europe were exposed to the Holocaust of Auschwitz and others, the Jews of the Arab world were living their brightest times in the countries of the region, on a par with their fellow Arab Muslims and Christians. , without discrimination or sectarian quotas, and it was neither strange nor surprising that some of them reached the seats of the Ministries, and they are represented in all aspects of life, including the economy and society, and they excelled in the arts and the theater, and the history here requires extensive reading.
Human brotherhood was a truly existing entity, even though there was no document yet, such as the “Human Brotherhood” document signed in Abu Dhabi on February 4, 2019, which the world regards as a contemporary human constitution. What again reminded us of those painful events I referred to in the introduction to the article?
A few days ago, Saturday February 20, the man in white, Francis, the poor behind the walls of the Vatican, visited the Hungarian-born Judaism poet, Edith Brock, the survivor of the Nazi Holocaust . Did this visit represent one of the faces of human fraternity that Francis regarded as his remaining legacy, in humanized minds, and hearts beating with constant and continuous love?
It is very likely that this is so, especially since this is his first visit outside the borders of Vatican City, since his last trip to the Cross of San Marcello and to the Great Church of Sainte Marie, and he was committed behind the walls for about a year, due to fears of the Corona pandemic epidemic. Francis seemed to be a brother in humanity in the sense of the Jewish poet of religion, who suffered the horrors of Nazism while she was after a girl, and here she is, after the departure of her husband, she remains alone in the 90s, behind the doors of his house, afraid of the scourge of the virus. Her story, then Francois reads it, and sees that the time has come to go to her house and share an hour with her, hoping that she soothes the loneliness in which she lives and makes her feel that there are brothers in humanity, whose difference of belief or belief does not prevent them from the joy of meeting in difficult times.
In the first moments of the meeting, Francis told her that he had come to thank her for her testimony, in which she spoke of the madness of the Nazi populist hatred, asking forgiveness from Almighty God for those who had committed this crime. against humanity.
The surprise took the mind of the poet, Edith, and for that when she received it, she commented: “We are never ready for the most beautiful moments of our life, neither are we prepared. for the worst times. ” So what Francis had only answered him by saying: “So there is a surprise that comes from within, from our hearts.”
During the meeting, Edith recalled her pain and how one of the German soldiers took her away from her mother, who was taken to the Auschwitz gas stove. She also remembered when another soldier gave her gloves that were pierced, but they were precious to her, which means that kindness is inherent in mankind, despite the evil that sometimes shows her. ugly face.
“Francis” commented on the novel “Edith” saying: “We are all brothers, although few sometimes forget it, as happened in the twentieth century. Francis and Edith … a human fraternity without limits.

Quoted from “Al-Ittihad”