"You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do?" This novel by Simon Wiesenthal does not seem like just another Holocaust book. To be honest, if it did, I probably would not have even considered reading it, for I have grown tired of hearing about ghettos and concentration camps. However this book takes a different approach. Being an imprisoned Jew placed next to a dying Nazi soldier who is haunted and embarrassed by his actions during the Holocaust, Wiesanthal is faced with one glaring question-whether or not to forgive the dying soldier. Years after the war he still wonders if his silence to the soldier was the right choice, and he receives feed back from distinguished theologians, political leaders, writers etc, who respond to his question.
I am curious to see whether this approach to a story of the Holocaust will be more interesting and grab my attention. We shall see. More to come after I begin reading.
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