Annelies

9 A PRAYER

Sometimes when I stand in some corner of the camp, my feet planted on Your earth, my eyes raised toward Your Heaven, tears sometimes run down my face, tears of deep emotion and gratitude. At night, too, when I lie in bed and rest in You, O God, tears of gratitude run down my face, and that is my prayer. Amen.

—Etty Hillesum, a prayer written in Auschwitz-Birkenau before her death in March 1943