Letters to the Editor
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But we don't want you apologies
Less still your explanations. I understand fully the human urge to elevate the survivors you can't look in the eye. But we're not really waiting for it and we don't care. And in 20-30 years the entire Shoah generation will be dead.
This isn't meant as a sardonic comment. It's meant as a bald statement of fact. Jews aren't all that interested in whether or not or when or how or if Catholics come to terms with the history of their Church. A history that goes back more than a thousand years of persecutions, pogroms, exterminations, relocations, forced conversions, torture, the taking of children from their parents and such.
That the Pope couldn't find but a single Jewish camp survivor doesn't shock. How many do you think there are? Eastern European Jewry was 'solutioned' to the tune of 85% in Poland to upwards of nearly 100% in places like Lithuania. And was on the heels as it were, of a mass migration of more than 3 million Jews who fled Europe from 1881-1910. Not including England and France, there are today about 50-70,000 Jews in all of Europe, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. England is home to about 300,000 and France about twice that give or take.
So trust me when I say we're not worried how you feel about that. But to the Christians credit, the total reduction in the population of Jews in Europe, on a percentage basis is quite a bit less severe than what occurred in North Africa, the mideast, west Asia and Persia in the period from 1945-54. Those 9 years saw the reduction of their own Jewish population to near zero. With the exception of Tunisia (5000), Morocco (5000) and Iran (25000) there are, essentially zero Jews in the Mideast, the Maghreb and Mizrahi, outside of Israel. Zero. So at least the Christians in Europe can hang on to that. Sure most of the Ashkenaz died but you didn't cleanse the land of us to the extent the Arabs and Persians did.
I almost feel sorry for Europeans and Christians who feel a need for atonement and salvation. We're not the people who should hear it. The people who should, are, unfortunately all dead.