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As some on the forum are already well into the fast, and the rest beginning to enter it, I came across this story that is quite touching. It is about the celebration of Pascha by the Orthodox inmates at the Dachau concentration camp immediately after liberation in 1945. A personal account of Pascha in Dachau [ orthodoxytoday.org] In IC XC, Father Anthony+
Everyone baptized into Christ should pass progressively through all the stages of Christ's own life, for in baptism he receives the power so to progress, and through the commandments he can discover and learn how to accomplish such progression. - Saint Gregory of Sinai
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What can you possibly add to that? The answer to that is nothing. Now I must wipe the tears off my face. Memory eternal to all those lost.
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Thank you Father Anthony for sharing that. It was very touching.
May our Lord have mercy on all those souls who suffered at the death camps. Amen.
In Christ,
Alice
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In 1999 I had the bittersweet privilege of visiting Dachau. I was moved then, even more moved after reading that account.
+Eternal Memory!
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What an incredible account.
For all those who perished there ,and in other camps
Eternal memory
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I visited Dachau last summer when studying abroad, as I may've already mentioned, and visited the Russian Orthodox chapel there. It was absolutely tiny, but very beautiful and rch moving.
Actually, I visited all the religious sites on the grounds: Protestant, Orthodox, Catholic, and Jewish.
Alexis
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The forced "repatriation" of Russians, Ukrainians, Belorussians et alii to the USSR by the victorious allies after World War II is one of the major atrocities of the 20th century. One such group insisted on being allowed to hold their own funeral service - because they knew that they would be killed by the Bolsheviks, and that no Christian funeral service would be allowed for them.
If that were not enough people began committing suicide in great numbers.
Fr. Serge
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