May God (swt) bless Liliane and her parents in the afterlife.
I read this earlier today and I found it incredible.
I'm sure anyone reading it, will think so too.
In 1944 the Nazis decided to exterminate the children of the orphanage La Maison d'Izieu. 44 little children were deported to Auschwitz and murdered immediately upon arrival.
Eleven-year-old Liliane Gerenstein was sent to her death a few days after she wrote this letter to God:
"God? How good You are, how kind and if one had to count the number of goodnesses and kindnesses You have done, one would never finish.
God? It is You who command. It is You who are justice, it is You who reward the good and punish the evil.
God? It is thanks to You that I had a beautiful life before, that I was spoiled, that I had lovely things that others do not have.
God? After that, I ask You one thing only: Make my parents come back, my poor parents protect them (even more than You protect me) so that I can see them again as soon as possible.
Make them come back again. Ah! I had such a good mother and such a good father! I have such faith in You and I thank You in advance."
The letter was found in April 1944 in the abandoned home in Izieu. Liliane's mother had been deported and was already murdered. Her father, Chapse, miraculously survived the horrors of the Holocaust and emigrated to the United States after the war. He died in 1979, never knowing the fate of his children.
You can read more at: http://www.photographs.dk/letter/
Comments
(You can't make dua for non-muslims after their death)
Not knowing what happened to his kids must've made things even more hard for the father
"How many people find fault in what they're reading and the fault is in their own understanding" Al Mutanabbi