Why did hitler murder the Jews?
Because he wanted to get rid of the people who had ‘invented’ God.” No man is better qualified to stress the inseparable bond between Jews and Christians than Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the archbishop of Paris, whose name used to be Aaron and whose mother Gisèle, a Polish rabbi’s daughter, was gassed to death in Auschwitz in 1943. In his latest, stunningly beautiful book, “La Promesse” (The Promise), this most illustrious convert from Judaism calls the Holocaust a unique event in history not so much because it was a genocide — genocides have happened before and since Auschwitz — but because the victims were none other but God’s chosen people. Lustiger, who became a Christian at age 14, took his book’s title from Psalm 119:148: “My eyes are awake before each watch of the night, that I may meditate on your promise.” And he prefaces his work with St. Simeon’s stirring words of thanks, which in liturgical churches the congregation chants as post-communion canticle. In the Jerusalem Te
