“To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgement” (pg 150).
I cannot even imagine how much the Jews at that time would hate the Germans. Even I, who am completely unrelated to any of the Jews in the concentration camp at that time, was outraged and emotionally moved by their indescribable experience in Auschwitz. I wonder why God would let this unjust destruction to happen to the innocent Jews. The holocaust definitely destroyed the people’s bodies and also their mentalities. But then if we think logically, God cannot always stop the evils and sinful acts in the world. When God created us, He created us with His own image. Thus we were to have a mind, will, and spirit. He created us to have a free-will. If God would want to stop all the evils, He would have to limit our minds and wills so we could only do and think of right things. Then we wouldn’t be created with God’s own image. Recently, in the Bible class, I learned that sin exists because God sometimes uses sin for justice and good deeds. For example, in the Bible, God used the sinful act of Joseph’s brothers to prosper Joseph in the future. Joseph was betrayed by his own brothers and was sold as a slave to Egypt, but later he became second highest officer of Egypt and saved the whole generation of Israelites at that time. Based on this, I assume that God will use this terrible event, Holocaust, for good purposes. We’ll never know His purposes because He is God and we are not.
