The Choir That No Empire Could Silence
On Easter morning, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer led a small worship service for fellow prisoners at Schönberg concentration camp. The men gathered represented a startling diversity...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14.
On Easter morning, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer led a small worship service for fellow prisoners at Schönberg concentration camp. The men gathered represented a startling diversity — a Russian atheist, a British officer, a French Catholic, German Lutherans. They sang hymns together in broken harmony, voices thin from hunger but unbroken in spirit. Three days later, Bonhoeffer was executed at Flossenbürg.…
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