MEDITATING IN AUSCHWITZ

Translated from the German by Judith N. Levi

January 2014

 

 Meditating in Auschwitz

Five days of meditating in Auschwitz. I believed that I was going to the most terrible place on earth, but what I found was a sacred place. A place of luminosity, intensity, a place of pure silence. A place of prayer and mourning. Here a part of me that until then had been wandering around restlessly, seeking and sighing, came to rest and came home. I felt thankful and still feel that thankfulness. Something in me can finally heal.

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