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The Moderator of the Assemblies of the Scottish Churches was more candid still.10 The Church, he said, ‘stood at the crossways with the signposts somewhat obliterated’.
The internees slightly amended the opening line of the Lord’s Prayer, which was recited as ‘Give us this day our daily bread – and some jam to spread on it’.
In her memoir God Remained Outside, the French Resistance fighter Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz tells of her imprisonment in the women’s concentration camp at Ravensbruck, where around fifty thousand died.75 She prayed there, throwing herself ‘on the mercy of the Father’. She remembers being ‘answered not even by silence – but by the wretched sound of my own distress’. Certain she is about to be killed, de Gaulle-Anthonioz then asks: ‘My God . . . Why hast Thou forsaken me?’76 – the question Jesus asks in the Bible.
