At yesterday session of Literary Lunches, Calvary Lutheran Church pastor Troy Troftruben read selections from Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Elie Wiesel, both of whom spent time in concentrations camps during World War II. The Weisel selection was an excerpt from Night and the Bonhoeffer selections were poems "Power of Good" and "Christian and Pagans."
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Elie Wiesel was born in the small town of Sighet in Transylvania, where people of different languages and religions have lived side by side for centuries, sometimes peacefully, sometimes in bitter conflict. The region was long claimed by both Hungary and Romania. In the 20th century, it changed hands repeatedly, a hostage to the fortunes of war.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German pronunciation: [ˈdiːtʁɪç ˈboːnhœfɐ]; February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and martyr. He was also a participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and a founding member of the Confessing Church. His involvement in plans by members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Adolf Hitler resulted in his arrest in April 1943 and his subsequent execution by hanging in April 1945, 23 days before the Nazis' surrender. His view of Christianity's role in the secular world has become very influential.
Troftgruben explained that he find both Wiesel and Bonhoeffer interesting because they consider where a god is in horrible circumstances.
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