Venue: Marek Edelman Dialogue Center | 83. Wojska Polskiego St.

The Book of Job teaches us that no justification for suffering is as pleasing to God as silence. However, silence is not an end in itself, but only a tool, freeing up space for deeper answers, because we cannot remain silent all the time, something must be said at the end of the day.

A time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak. (Ecclesiastes 3:7).

Tearing is silence, and mending is talking. This is also the case when talking about pain and suffering: on the one hand, it is difficult to talk about it, because pain makes it impossible to find the words, and on the other hand, it is necessary to talk about it and to look for answers in order to learn to hope. We are torn between the search for meaning and the desire to forget.

During the meeting, we will discuss why it is still difficult to talk about the Holocaust after so many years. In order to have the tools to answer this seemingly obvious question, we will look at selected answers to the original question: why did the Shoah take place?