Christians??????

Question

What would you have done had you been in Europe during the Holocaust?

Imagine that you are in any of the countries Hitler invaded. Your best friends are Jews. They have asked you to hide them, to save them from extermination.

Would you do all that you could to save their lives, at great peril to your own?

Or would you hand them over to the Gestapo like Judas handed over Jesus?

What do you think Jesus would want you to do?

I know you are curious as to what I would do.....I would hide them, or help them to flee. And I would be terrified. But I could not under any circumstances betray my best friends.

Or a total stranger for that matter.

Answer 1

I'd be like Rahab, only minus the harlotry. ;o)

I'd hide them. Unconscionable to do otherwise.

Answer 2

Jesus would have wanted me to help them and hide them. I would have done exactly that, and I believe that I would not be afraid for my life. I rather save someone because that is in me. In todays' society people tend to not see or care what is going on around them. I am the opposite, when I see a child being beaten by a group of kids, I will stop my car and intervene and call the police. So, I know for sure, in my heart of hearts that I would have defended my Jewish friends, just like I try to do now. My husband's keeps telling me that one day I will get into something that I will not be able to handle, but I tell him with the Grace of God I and the others will be OK.

Answer 3

I think I would have tried to get them out of the country. Hiding them would be a risky strategy seemingly likely to fail for any number of reasons over the months/years you might have to face.

I can't imagine turning them away, but on the other hand I do have three children of my own and cannot claim to know what I would do in the reality of such an event.

Answer 4

As one of Jehovah's Witnesses, I would have done what the Witnesses did back then. I would have done all that I could to save their lives.

Here's a quick little article about it:

“That Is the Way True Christians Should Behave”

IN HIS 1990 book Arbeit macht tot—Eine Jugend in Auschwitz (Work Kills You—Young Manhood in Auschwitz), Auschwitz survivor Tibor Wohl documents a conversation he overheard between two fellow prisoners. One, an Austrian, claimed to be a “nonbeliever.” Yet, he praised the prisoners who wore the purple-triangle insignia—the Bible Students, as Jehovah’s Witnesses were called in the camp.

“They do not go to war,” said the Austrian to his companion. “They would rather be killed than kill anyone else. In my view that is the way true Christians should behave. I must tell you about a very pleasant episode I had with them. We were together with both Jews and Bible Students in one block in the camp of Stutthof. In those days the Bible Students had to do hard labor, outdoors in the bitter cold. We could not understand how they survived. They said Jehovah gave them strength. They needed their bread desperately, since they were famished. But what did they do? They collected all the bread they had, took half of it and gave the other half to their brothers, their spiritual brothers, who came in ravenous from other camps. And they welcomed them and kissed them. Before they ate, they prayed, and afterward their faces beamed with happiness. They said that nobody was hungry anymore. So, you see, then I thought to myself, ‘These are true Christians.’ That was how I always imagined they should be. How nice it would have been to give starving comrades such a welcome here in Auschwitz!”

Answer 5

Mr. Duchovny,
I have been exposed to persecution in book form, and in recent articles, i.e. little girls getting their hands chopped off by marauding Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia. As well as Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

I would do anythig to save the lives of those who sought me out. And would go to my death attempting to keep them safe.

I don't want to stay on this planet anyway! lol

As a believing Christian, what the hell is this place compared to the one I'm headed for? NOTHING! I even hate myself sometimes. So yes I would have myself killed so that others might live, not because I'm some kind of saint, but because this place sucks, man!

Thanks for the question. It got me to laugh.

EDIT: by the way, someone HAS to do Foxe's Book of Martyrs. It hasn't been done ion a movie form. I pick you to do 45 minutes, and Peter Jackson, and
Mel Gibson.

Answer 6

ok dude during the holocaust and to tell u christians do not believe the same thing as jews christians believe jesus was the messiah and jews think he hasn't come yet so it is different so and it wasn't against christianity that hitler wanted to get rid of he wantd to rid europe of "inferiour races" and make it all one master race which is german and iam german but no whole german only like not much but i believe in christianity so if u don't like it the just leave! gosh!

Answer 7

That's a reallly tough question. I have no idea what I would want to do. Knowing my nature, how i desperately try to save everyone and help every situation everyone is giong through (yeah, this isn't always a good thing), I could see myself trying to save them. I think Jesus would want us to love them. and help them. I don't know, that's a toughie!

Answer 8

My Father was forced by Hitler to take the gold teeth and jewlery off the dead and somemes those who were not dead yet, even if he had to cut there fingers off to get it, or break their jaws to get to the gold teeth.

It's easy to surmise what a person would do or not do when they are not there and dont' know what it was to actually go through what they did. I will not begin to try to imagin what I would do. My Father did what he had to do to keep them from killing him too.

Answer 9

Hard to say what we would have done (past tense).
If I were the same person I am today only back then, I would not only have hidden them, but fed, clothed, and possibly sniped some enemies to boot!!

No one knows what they would do until a situation presents itself

Answer 10

As a Jehovah's Witness, I wouldn't be able to hide anyone because I'd already be in the concentration camps.

Answer 11

I sure as hell (interesting phrase, since I don't believe in hell) hope I would do my best to save any innocent person.

But with beliefs like mine, I bet I'd have been more likely to need hiding.