Pope remembers Slovakia’s Holocaust victims as he meets Jewish community

Pope Francis prays as he meets members of the Jewish community (Gregorio Borgia/AP)

Pope Francis honoured Slovakian Holocaust victims and atoned for Christian complicity in wartime crimes as he sought to promote reconciliation in a country where a Catholic priest was president of a Nazi puppet state that deported tens of thousands of its Jews.

“Your history is our history, your sufferings are our sufferings,” Francis told members of Slovakia’s small, remaining Jewish community, standing in the shadow of the country’s Holocaust memorial.