Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now?

Who has made us Jews different from all other people?

We are in chains, chained to one spot, without any rights, but with a thousand duties.

We Jews must now show our feelings, we must be brave, we must be strong, we must accept all inconveniences, we must not grumble, we must do what is within our power and trust in God.

Sometime this terrible war will be over. Surely the time will come when we are people again and not just Jews!

Who has inflicted this upon us?

Who made us Jews different from all other people?

Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now?

It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again.

If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when this war is over - when this terrible war is over - then Jews instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

Who knows, it might be even our religion from which the world and all its peoples learn good, and for that reason and that reason only do we have to suffer now.

God has never deserted our people. Right through the ages there have been Jews; through all the ages they have had to suffer, but it also had made them strong.

Who knows, it might be our own religion from which the world and all people learn good, and for that reason and that reason only we have to suffer now.