Can anyone help me find a book including a letter to God written by a Holocaust victim?

March 30, 2006 12:53 PM

My apologies for this vague description--I used to work in a bookstore where I'd pick up and browse through a number of books. One book included a letter written to God by a Jewish man (maybe a rabbi?) imprisoned during the Holocaust. Part of the letter involved him saying, essentially, "no matter what you do to me, God, or what suffering you send, you can't make me stop loving you. That is the form my free will takes." Does anyone know the author or title?
posted by piers to religion & philosophy (4 comments total)

Could it be Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning?
posted by sciencejock at 1:20 PM on March 30, 2006

Is it Yosl Rakover Talks to God?
posted by MasonDixon at 1:48 PM on March 30, 2006

Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi?
posted by alms at 2:46 PM on March 30, 2006

I would've written more above earlier, but I found it just as I was preparing to run out of my office for the day.

Perhaps it should be noted that Yosl Rakover was for a long time thought to be nonfiction, although the author was himself a holocaust survivor.

From my link above:
"You may insult me, You may chastise me, You may take from me the dearest and the best that I have in the world, You may torture me to death — I will always believe in You. I will love You always and forever — even despite You."

Pretty close?
posted by MasonDixon at 7:34 PM on March 30, 2006