How many questions arise in this place! Constantly the question comes up: Where was God in those days? Why was he silent? How could he permit this endless slaughter, this triumph of evil?... We must continue to cry out humbly yet insistently to God: Rouse yourself! Do not forget mankind, your creature!

On visited the former concentration camp at Auschwitz, Poland, on May 28, 2006. Quoted in The Watchtower magazine, in the article: Why, Lord, Did You Remain Silent?, (15 May 2007)