It happened on February 20, 2021. That day, in Rome, Pope Francis, overwhelmed by the reading of French
toast
and the chapter
Letter to God
which closes it, spends two hours at the home of Edith Bruck, author of the book. The Italian press quickly echoed it, and in a few days, the novelist and poet increased her sales tenfold. In this
Letter to God
, she confesses:
"I asked You about all kinds of things, but I never heard Your voice, unlike Moses who heard it, You never deigned to give me only one answer, no more than my mother despite her unwavering faith in You. "
She adds:
"We have neither Purgatory nor Heaven, but Hell, I have known it, where Mengele's finger indicated the left which was fire and the right which was the agony of forced labor."
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It was in this same apartment, located in via del Babuino, a stone's throw from the Trinita dei Monti, that we met Edith Bruck, 90, a survivor of the death camps.
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