These years have been years of blessings, but also of learning, and there have been crosses, I don't deny that for an instant, ... But I say that in all of this, the joy and the consolation of the priestly ministry has exceeded any cross that came my way.
He grew up in a town that was probably 30 percent Jewish, ... He came back to his hometown after the war and found that his schoolmates and his friends were no more.