Pope Francis hugs Lidia Maksymowicz, a Polish survivor to Auschwitz, as he leaves the Courtyard of St Damasus at the end of his weekly General Audience on May 26, 2021 in Vatican City. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images) VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has kissed the tattoo of an Auschwitz survivor during a general audience on Wednesday.Lidia Maksymowicz, a Polish citizen who was deported to Auschwitz from her native Belarus by the age of 3, showed the pope the number tattooed on her arm by the Nazis, and Francis leaned over and kissed it.Maksymowicz told Vatican News that she didn't exchange words with the pope."We understood each other with a glance," she said.Maksymowicz has participated in events sponsored by Sant'Egidio aimed at.