Tag: holocaust
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Gratitude to God when facing difficulties
After spending a year at Mt. Sinai, the Israelites head back into the desert in Numbers 11. In the first ten chapters of the Book of Numbers, things are going pretty smoothly for the Israelites. They celebrate the Passover, they dedicate the Tabernacle. We don’t really see any major sin issues. But nearly as soon…
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Holocaust Remembrance Day and the evils of humanity
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was on this day 75 years ago, Auschwitz Concentration Camp was liberated. More than 1 million people lost their lives at Auschwitz while millions more perished in the hundreds of other concentration camps run by the Nazis. But tragically, on a day set apart to remember those who…
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Shattered peace: 80th anniversary of Nazi’s “Night of Broken Glass”
Throughout Germany and Austria, riots broke out on this night 80 years ago in a night which is infamously referred to as Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, after the destruction done to Jewish businesses and properties. At least 91 Jewish people were killed; 30,000 men were arrested; hundreds of businesses were damaged or destroyed.…
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Elie Wiesel: 1928-2016
“It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek’s soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings–his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again…When I awoke, in the…
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Shattered peace: 75th anniversary of Nazi’s “Night of Broken Glass”
Throughout Germany and Austria, riots broke out on this night 75 years ago in a night which is infamously referred to as Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, after the destruction done to Jewish businesses and properties. At least 91 Jewish people were killed; 30,000 men were arrested; hundreds of businesses were damaged or destroyed.…
Josh Benner 