Rutka's Notebook

Time Magazine had an article in their brand new May issue on a diary of Jewish girl's diary who lived under Nazi occupation during WWII. They published a few entries from the diary. World War II has always fascinated me so I read the article even though the pictures weren't too interesting.

One piece really stirred me up...

Feb. 5 1943
Oh, good Lord. Well, Rutka (the Jewish Girl's name), you've probably gone completely crazy. You are calling upon God as if He exists. The little faith I used to have has been completely shattered. If God existed, He would have certainly not permitted that human beings be thrown alive into furnaces, and the heads of little toddlers be smashed with butts of gun or be shoved into sacks and gassed to death... It sounds like a fairy tale. Those who haven't seen this would never believe it. But it's not a legend, it's the truth."


Some things I will never ever understand. The persecution of the Jewish people during this time is one of them. Why did this happen? Couldn't there have been a divine intervention? Rutka was a teenager while all this crap was going down. She was murdered in Auschwitz.


We live in a broken world. shucks.