Where was God in all this? Was this another test, one more? Or a punishment? And if so, for what sins? What crimes were being punished? Was there a misdeed that deserved so many mass graves? Would it ever again be possible to speak of justice, of truth, of divine charity, after the murder of one million Jewish children?

Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) Romanian-American novelist, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate.

A Jew Today, “To Be a Jew” (1978)

On the Holocaust.