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Podcast: The Daily Article
Episode: Why this Auschwitz survivor never had children: âWhen you donât have faith, pray for the faith to have faithâ
Description: Teresa Regula arrived at Auschwitz as a sixteen-year-old. Speaking ahead of yesterdayâs eightieth anniversary of Auschwitzâs liberation by Soviet troops, she said: âWhen I returned (from the camp), I thought, âIâm never going to have childrenâever.â If they had to go through even a fraction of what I went through, I didnât want that.â Though she later married, she has remained childless all her life. I would imagine that many of Hitlerâs Jewish victims knew Psalm 22, Davidâs famous prayer of lament. David suffered in a prophetic parallel to Jesusâ own suffering on the cross, but neither l...