This handout photo taken and provided by the Vatican press office, the Vatican Media, on September 13, 2021 shows Pope Francis signing a guest book at the Presidential Palace in Bratislava, Slovakia. – The Pope is on a four-day visit in Slovakia, where he will meet with Holocaust survivors and members of the Roma community. /
Slovakia, a European Union member with a population of 5.4 million, had the highest per capita Covid-19 contagion and mortality rates in the world for several weeks this year. The pope is also due to meet with members of Slovakia’s Jewish community later on Monday, a day after warning that anti-Semitism was still “lurking” around the world.
Under the orders of the then-government headed by a Catholic priest, Jozef Tiso, tens of thousands of Slovak Jews were deported and killed.After the war, most of the survivors either emigrated or stayed and hid their Jewish identity.
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