What is Holocaust Memorial Day?

“There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still,”

Corrie ten Boom

Remember that quote as you read on because that’s the good news.

On January 27, 2024, we commemorate the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz.

The featured photo above is of the train tracks entering Auschwitz Concentration Camp. For the world, Auschwitz is a symbol of the Holocaust and the cruelties of World War II when 8 million Jews were murdered in an act of Nazi genocide. You can go there today and see it for yourself.

But did you know that one in five young Americans thinks the Holocaust is a myth? How is that possible? It is alarming, but it also shows how vulnerable to propaganda young adults are today.

Rockie Blunt, U.S. Army (Ret), part of the Allied forces who liberated the prisoners at Auschwitz told his interviewer that prisoners said to him, “Promise me you will never let the world forget what you are seeing here today.”

You can watch Rockie’s testimony here on the History Channel: Horrors of Auschwitz

The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom greatly impacted my life. If you haven’t read it, you must obtain a copy for your library and read about how she showed God’s love for others by hiding Jews in her home during WWII. Here is a passage from the book.

"Would you be willing to take a Jewish mother and her baby into your home?"

Color drained from the man's face. He took a step back from me. "Miss ten Boom! I do hope you're not involved with any of this illegal concealment ... It's just not safe! Think of your father!"

I pulled the coverlet back from the baby's face. The man bent forward, his hand in spite of himself reaching for the tiny fist curled around the blanket. For a moment I saw compassion and fear struggle in his face. Then he straightened. "No. Definitely not. We could lose our lives for that Jewish child!"

Unseen by either of us, Father had appeared in the doorway. "Give the child to me, Corrie," he said.

Father held the baby close, his white beard brushing its cheek, looking into the little face with eyes as blue and innocent as the baby's ... "You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family."

What makes someone literally risk their life for another like Corrie, her sister Betsy, and their father did? All three of them were eventually caught and taken to a prison camp by the Gestapo where Corrie’s father died. Corrie and her sister were eventually taken to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp where Betsy died from maltreatment.

The terrorist attack on Israel on October 7 was the most shocking example of anti-semitism since the Holocaust. Today, anti-semitism is worse than it’s ever been since Hitler’s reign of terror. What will happen next? What will Christians be willing to do? What would you be willing to do?

Jesus said, “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” John 15:13

In His Love, Cindy

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U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

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