The Meaning of Suffering
Dear _____, I am glad you are okay. Finding out the people who hurt us were hurt, can be liberating. In a very real sense, they had no choice. That any humanity and character or personality remained to survivors [of the Holocaust] after being subjected to such inhumanity is a mystery of grace. Many survivors ended up committing suicide, which seems counter-intuitive at first until you think about it, and then it makes perfect sense. I still can't really forgive my parents for what they deprived me of, even though I understand that, in the words of Yeshua, "they did not know what they did". Maybe it is God I really blame unconsciously, or myself. There are probably many more other books on the children of Holocaust survivors, including studies; the one I posted to you is just the one I happened to read and the one that amazed me because I could identify so strongly with the accounts. My father is not Jewish, though I did find Jewish relatives at ...