CMJ USA News & Views

There was an active Jewish Christian community in Holland when the Nazis invaded. Some were pastors, nuns and monks, but the Nazis cared nothing about these distinctions. Their mission was to kill all Jews.

Portraits of Holocaust suvivors and their grandchildren by Kate Middleton speak of life and hope.

In 2001, I had a number of encounters with the Lord. I was to create a memorial to the six million Jews who had perished that would be interwoven with the seven last utterances of Jesus from the crucifixion.

In the nearly 80 years since the Holocaust survivors were liberated, how many of us have considered the spiritual powers behind the hatred? John Scott Gruner compels us to consider that question in his novel The Infidel.

Books tell stories of many heroes among the Jews forced into the Warsaw Ghetto – some believers in Jesus and others not. Janusz Korczak was among those Jewish heroes, and he cared for hundreds of Jewish children there. Here is a bit of his story.

In 1943, Bazyli was forced to hide in a woodshed while his wife Anna passed as a Gentile Polish woman. But early the next year somebody betrayed them. The Gestapo had come looking for them.

With guest speaker, Susanna Kokkonen, former director of Christian Friends of Yad Vashem. Also presenting will be Kelvin Crombie on the Jewish Christians who died in the Holocaust. Watch archived recording.