“The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.” Deuteronomy 28:7
My book review today is a bit heavy. I recently read this book. It was the hardest book I have ever read on what the Jews suffered in WWII. When Hitler started invading countries around Germany he wanted world power. He also was obsessed with doing away with a whole race of people – God’s chosen – the Jews. Thanks to God, he did not win that war! What a heart wrenching time in history.
I have read many books on WWII and all that the Jews suffered. This book definitely was the saddest and most difficult to read.
Heroine of Auschwitz
You can find this book on Amazon and here is a partial description of this book.
When the train carrying Rachael Kisch, her younger brother, Hannes and the rest of the Dutch Jews arrives in Auschwitz, they are unaware of the unimaginable horrors that await them. Rachael is devastated when she becomes separated from her brother. She promises to find him at all costs.
Ludwig Albin is a Polish farmer sent to Auschwitz and forced to work in the impossibly cruel Sonderkommando work group.
Rachael and Ludwig become friends, but are kept apart by the barbed wire fence which stands between them. But is love even possible in Auschwitz?
Auschwitz
Auschwitz was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps set up by the Germans throughout occupied Poland. This was all part of Hitler’s plan called, “The Final Solution.” The Germans sent 1.3 million people to these camps and of those 1.1 million were murdered. They had extermination buildings set up to gas people and others were murdered due to starvation, exhaustion, disease, individual executions and beatings.
This book was hard to put down and even though it was difficult to read, I do believe we all need to know what happened in our world’s history. Never again should we allow a race of people to be tortured, killed, humiliated and left to die alone. They are not only God’s chosen but also God created and precious in His sight.
One of the quotes that got to me was from when the Americans came in to free the camps. Truly, watching humanity treat others as inhumane is a travesty we should never get over.
God allowed this war to happen and many lost their lives defending our countries from this evil man. Hitler will answer to God for his deeds and sadly is lost in eternity. His soul will never know rest. Our souls CAN know rest for eternity and when we know rest it makes the burdens of this earth just a little lighter to carry.
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