Praise The Lord for bringing these people back together.. Made me cry too!! G-D Bless You All * HUGS*

I keep on asking, "where was G-d at Auschwitz, was he sleeping"? I want to know where G-d is now that over 22,000 Israeli Jews have been killed in their own homeland, thanks to an indifferent world? All over Europe, the Holocaust seems to have faded from memory, except for the deniers. Anti-Semitism is again in vogue, promoted in the Muslim world, and accepted in parts of Europe that should know better (Italy). Auschwitz was a symptom of a much larger problem, the hatred of Jews for 2,000 years, expressed weekly in churches throughout Europe. I ask, where was the Pope, why was he silent? I don't fathom the excuse that it would have made the Jews plight worse (how much worse can it get?). The remnant of Jewry that survived are lucky, that's it. But over 50,000 former NAZIs still walk in Germany and Austria, free to live out their lives. Is this justice? Why are they still enjoying their grandchildren, unfettered from retaliation?

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The best answer I have heard to the question "where was Hashem," is the question God asked Adam (and later Cain): "Where are you?" Its not a question of where was God, but a question of where was man. Ignore that "look into the kabballah and know all nonsense." The kabballah is too abstact to be useful. Its not going to answer the deep and difficult questions of faith . The mission God gave man in general and the Jews in specific in the Torah is the rectification of the world. Our sages teach us: each man is a world unto himself. If so, we must improve ourselves and our society and our world. That's our imperative. God doesn't need to be fixed. We need to be fixed.

I was told by my father that the Russians didn't let the jews go after the war, they shipped them to siberia. Is this true?

simply a great and memorable post Joe

There was not legal way to leave country for almost any Soviet citizen in most time slots between end of WWII and 1991. Sometimes jews were allowed to go in Israel, sometimes no. In any case such decision was associated with difficulties in job, dayly living problems, kinds of money fines and sometimes in jail. Jew were not shipped to Siberia owing to their blood only. But Torah study was strictly forbidden for youngsters, and if revealed it could be real reason for camp in Siberia.