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Article: Pope to Visit NYC Synagogue This Month
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- April 4, 2008
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When Pope Benedict XVI enters a U.S. synagogue for the first time, there likely will be an emotional encounter between a Holocaust survivor and the German pontiff who both suffered in the same war.
"Both of us experienced the tragedy of World War II," said Arthur Schneier, senior rabbi of Manhattan's Park East Synagogue, which the pope is to visit on April 18.
The Vienna-born rabbi told The Associated Press in an interview at his office that he and the pope have the same mother tongue, German. "So we have a common language _ at least in terms of meine Muttersprache, my mother tongue," he said.
Schneier, 78, fled Adolf Hitler's forces in Austria for ...