Letter to God

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=80 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="03c00500dvldtc.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Americana BT" ><B><IMG SRC="0a53a180.jpg" border=0 width="314" height="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT><B>|     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Children from Izieu"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Georges"><U>Georges</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jacques "><U>Jacques </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sabine Zlatin"><U>Sabine Zlatin</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poetry"><U>Poetry</U></A>   |   <B>Letter to God</B>   |   <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Barbie and Brunner"><U>Barbie and Brunner</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="03dd2c00dvldtc.gif"> <div>   <script language="Javascript"></script><noscript> <a href="http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=10001&m=3&c=1" target="_blank"> <img src="http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=10001&m=3&d=s&c=1&f=b&v=1.4" width=120 height=600 border=1></a></noscript>   </div> </td> <td valign="top" height=400 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="497" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 136 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="0c16b6b0.jpg" border=0 width="107" height="107" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="252"><bR> <div> In 1944 the Nazis sent two vans to Izieu to exterminate the children of an orphanage, La Maison d'Izieu. In a senseless raid, 44 Jewish children aged 4 to 13 years, and 7 adult caretakers were sent to Auschwitz and immediately gassed ...</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="0c26b6b0.jpg" border=0 width="107" height="107" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="334" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#660000" BORDERCOLORDARK="#FF9900" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ROWS" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 588 WIDTH="324"><div> <IMG SRC="0baee300.jpg" border=0 width="238" height="48" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Eleven-year-old Liliane Gerenstein managed to write this letter to God shortly after the arrest:</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>God ?  How good You are, how kind, and if one had to count the number of goodnesses and kindnesses You have done, one would never finish.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>God ?  It is You who command. It is You who are justice, it is You who reward the good and punish the evil.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>God ?  It is thanks to You that I had a beautiful life before, that I was spoiled, that I had lovely things that others do not have.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>God ?  After that, I ask You one thing only: Make my parents come back, my poor parents protect them (even more than you protect me) so that I can see them again as soon as possible. </I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Make them come back again. Ah! I had such a good mother and such a good father! I have such faith in You and I thank You in advance.</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0bd509f0.jpg" border=0 width="80" height="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>