12/27/2023 0 Comments Holocaust remembrance quotes![]() Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost we are indeed cut off.’ Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. “These bones are the whole house of Israel. The prophet Ezekiel had experienced the bewildering vision of utter devastation – skeletons scattered throughout the valley floor, but God first brings them back to life physically, then breathes his breath into them and makes them live. It is a quotation from Ezekiel 37, the Valley of Dry Bones. Then you shall know that I am the Lord I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the Lord.” “And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. On leaving the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, one drives under a large archway which reads, The blows were deadly, far-reaching, and beyond comprehension. The damage done in the Holocaust affected not only those who perished in it, nor did it stop with the lives shattered beyond repair by memories unbearable to the human soul, but also greatly damaged Jewish attitudes toward Christianity and God himself, even to this day. Is the New Testament Really Anti-Semitic? This incredible woman seemed of a more cheerful disposition (because of God, she told me) but she also said gravely that the New Testament was a very anti-Semitic book. My flight companion lost almost all of her family during the Holocaust except for her mother, who, she told me, just cried and cried, day after day. “She never had a single happy moment after that”, she reflected. ![]() She explained to me that Casper the watch-maker and his Christian family had helped to hide Jews from the Nazis. Her family was from the same town in Holland as Corrie Ten Boom, and the family knew the Ten Boom family well. There are not many left to tell the tale, but I had the privilege of sitting next to a Holocaust survivor on a plane who told me how she had been rescued as a baby by nuns, and eventually reunited with her mother after the war. ![]()
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