German-born Alexander Dietze and his wife Cäcilia have been helping and serving Holocaust survivors in Israel for 10 years.
As a Christian living in Germany, he said, he read about the Jewish people, in the Bible, but living in Israel amidst the people that the whole Bible is written about, is something else entirely!
“One day, a Holocaust survivor told me, ‘You know, you can tell me everything, but show me your deeds and I (will) tell you who you are.’ And that makes a big impact,” Dietze told CBN News.
“I said, ‘Yeah, what I should do,’ and then it’s tied to how they see me. Ah, you believe in Jesus? Ah, you are a Catholic. And I was put in a box. I don’t want to be in a box,” Dietze said. “So I learned how they see me as a Christian. And I started to think. And I found out that our history as Christians is the worst, so to say, for the Jewish people.”
“Under the Christians, the Jewish people suffered more than under any other religion. This was devastating. And even to see our reformer, Martin Luther in Germany, who really had an awakening of being, you know,
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