When they were written in the 1940s and early 1950s, the postcards and letters that landed in Jutta Sturdevant’s care a few years back told of a kind of helplessness, of people forced from their homes by the Nazi terror.
On Sunday, Oct. 14, at a small white Episcopal church in West Orange, their struggle was remembered, and honored with a commitment to oppose such evil wherever it arises.
Sturdevant brought the letters to the attention of her minister, the Rev. Martie Metzler, at the Church of the Holy Innocents in West Orange. Metzler, who was profoundly moved by a visit to Yad Vashem while in Israel a few years back, took them as inspiration to make Holocaust remembrance the theme of her service on Sunday. “We have been planning since last spring, as a parish, to focus on interfaith understanding and cooperation,” she said.
