Corrie Tenboom and Father Maximillan Kolbe are only two of many who cared for others through a dificult and horrible time. Many were there who showed love and concern for others.
"Where two or more are gathered in My name, I am there."
2006-10-24 09:11:07 · 14 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think that is something people don't realize, that Catholic Poles were murdered by the Nazis too. Not just Jews and gays and gypsies. My 1st husband was a Polish Catholic and I learned about this from his family.
2006-10-24 09:31:51 · answer #1 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Good grief. Six million jews died in the Nazi concentration camps before you even get started on Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, communists and the disabled. How many of those do you think do NOT deserve to be described as "loving souls"? And it was slightly more than a "difficult and horrible time". Why should I be asked to care more for one of two than everyone else who died there, specifically because of their religion? Why would you imagine that you are presenting some remarkably new piece of information about the defining episode of the 20th century? I am shocked that you think the rest of us are so ignorant.
2006-10-24 19:01:22 · answer #2 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've read many books about WW2 and the Holocaust, and other wars too. And I just can't reconcile what happens in this world (and not only to the Jews) with a belief in any god.
What really cuts me to pieces are child abuse in any form and murdered children.
Edit: I'm sorry if this offends you, Debra. It's just the way I feel at this point in my life.
Peace.
2006-10-24 16:19:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
there are many loving stories that came out of the murderous place. i visited there - it was painful but the stories from the survivors made the trip worth while. i saw the cells in which Fr Kolbe was tortured and everything else where people stood for their beliefs and their families and died. it was sad and pain filled.
2006-10-24 16:32:30 · answer #4 · answered by Marysia 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Blessed Michal Czartoryski (d. 1944), a Dominican priest killed in the Warsaw Insurrection,
Maria Anna Biernacka (1888-1943), one of nine lay persons (she was a benefactress of the Redemptorists in Warsaw) who chose to be executed to save her unborn grand child,
George Kaszyra and Anthony Leszczewicz, Marian priests, (they perished among some 1,500 victims burned alive by the Nazis in Roscia, Belarus, on 17-18 February 1943),
Many many sacrificed their lives for others, not because of faith tradition, politics, or wealth. Because of greater Love, Truth, and Hope.
2006-10-24 16:29:25 · answer #5 · answered by Lives7 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes I know many Auschwitz stories, but I just recently learned about Babi Yar. The movie "All Is Illuminated" is about Babi Yar -- an excellent movie.
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2006-10-24 16:40:45 · answer #6 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Would you or they fax these reports to the President of Iran.
He doesn't believe Auschwitz existed.
Most Islamics believe it was made up.
EVERY Islamic I've ever talked with says that "6 million Jews did not die."
I'm an American. My dad was in WWII.
All they saw at Auschwitz was the living or, if you will, half dead.
2006-10-24 16:23:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Dear DebraM: Too many years ago (!) I read a book about this subject. Can't remember the title anymore, except it was an Apologia (which was a word in the title). It opened with a quote by Charles Pequy and one by Father Journet. This book was written for Jewish people, primarily.
"He (Jesus) was a Jew, a simple Jew, a Jew like you, a Jew among you. You knew him in the way one says of a man: I knew him in the old days . . .brothers of his race and of the same lineage. He shed unique tears over you. He wept over that multitude of you. You saw the color of his eyes; you heard the sound of his words. Of the same lineage, eternally." Charles Pequy
"Never will the church here below be so fervent, so loving, so pure as it was in the time when it was entirely Jewish."
Father Journet
The book has haunted me all of my life since. The author said he and his family were gathered up and sent to Auschwitz. This meant his daughter and his wife. Within a short time they both died in Auschwitz, but he stayed alive. He wrote the book after his liberation when he was back in civilian life and the war was ended. He claimed Jesus had entered the camp and was present at all times. He said it was Jesus who saved him and showed him how to survive it. He also went on to speak of the many, many Jews who came to know Jesus in that camp.
I believe he died of a broken heart over his daughter and wife, for I do recall reading of his death (I think a note by the publisher). Saved from the camp,he could not bear his life without his child and wife - but, he wanted to write to his fellow Jews about Jesus and to plead with them to turn toward Him.
It is interesting to note that in those camps, Jews spoke to each other of feeling His presence and hearing Him speak to them in their minds. More of the Jewish people than we would realize experienced Jesus in the camps and survived because of it. I know Jesus "worked" those camps. You can see by Apologia being part of the title plus the opening quotes that he was appealing to his Jewish brethren.
He died in love with the Christ.
Love, Lana
2006-10-24 18:49:10 · answer #8 · answered by Lana S (1) 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Members of my late Grandfathers family were killed both in Aushwitz and in the Bolshevic revolution.
2006-10-24 16:16:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I encourage you to read "Man's search for meaning" by Viktor Frankl.
2006-10-24 16:12:35 · answer #10 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋