Vigil at Auschwitz // American Jew says nuns should remain at death-camp convent From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: September 10, 1989| Author: Deena Metzger | Copyright (null) Chicago Sun-Times. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Last spring I reached the conclusion that it was necessary for me, an American-born Jew, to make a pilgrimage to the death camps of Eastern Europe.

It was to be an interior journey, a commitment made to myself: to look as unflinchingly as I could on the face of evil, to sit in grief for my people and all others who had been murdered, to bear as best I could the cosmic disappointment of it all, and then to ask unbearable, even impermissible questions: How can we heal this agony? Wha...

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