There is also an important point of fact in the story which makes a big difference: Danon was 10 years old at the outbreak of the war. She was in Yugoslavia and survived by hiding from the Nazis. My father was 15 when the war broke out and overtook him in Lublin, Poland. He went through 6 different concentration camps. He was beaten, starved, terrorized and brutalized in indescribable ways. He was liberated after a 4 day death march with no food or water. His family (including my grandparents, uncles and cousins) were exterminated. Maybe one has to have experienced the full measure of evil to appreciate how it cannot be tolerated, forgiven or countenanced in any way.
Yes. It may be easier to forgive when the suffering was comparably less than what was experienced by people like your father. And that is not for me to judge.
They took in and hid many Jews during the Holocaust...& helped by her brother, his 20 yr old son and other members of the family
..they were discovered...
Father ten Boom (a respected watch maker) died in prison......
..Betsie ten Boom died in the concentration camp she shared with her sister....
...Corrie's nephew died in a different concentration camp.....the dad contracted tuberculosis of the spine and died shortly after the war....
..Corrie barely survived....
..but after the war, took in displaced Jewish Holocaust survivers...
...and continued to spread the Word of repentance and forgiveness.
She made this her life work and died at age 94.
She was counted as one of the Righteous.
There is no pit so deep, that God is not deeper still....Corrie ten Boom