Auschwitz: God had the last word ...

Holocaust Memorial Day falls each year on the 27th of January to mark the day in 1945, when the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops .
So as not to forget this anniversary Veronica Scarisbrick shares with you a conversation she had a while back with someone who lives and works at the heart of this desolate site.
He's Father Manfred Desalaers, Pastor of the German Bishop's Conference of the Centre for Dialogue and Prayer there. Veronica asked him what had first struck him about this daunting place and he confirmed it was: " the scale and the scale of loss of human feeling and dignity.."
For while Father Manfred was born 10 years after the inmates there walked to freedom, as a German he remarks how how while he may not personally be guilty : "..someone did what happened and there is a guilt ...connected to the German people..this for me means a responsibility to try to build bridges..." . A process he insists which involves reinforcing the bridges already in place while at the same time creating new ones with always at their centre the human person.
The most important thing here he insists is: "... to believe that God did not abandon the victims ...God had the last word, God is love."...
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