ABSTRACT
To gain an adequate understanding of the Holocaust community it is as essential to survey the beliefs not held by survivors as to examine the theological views they expressed relative to the meaning and origin of good and evil and the prospects of their reconciliation in a hereafter. Holocaust survivors had no difficulty relating to the idea that in Europe they had been "in the land of their enemies". The author's attention should be drawn to the fact that the most frequently selected answer of survivors who remained observant was that the Holocaust was the will of God. Nonobservant survivors who viewed the Holocaust as the fulfillment of the divine will were naturally not as inclined to link the destruction with the Jewish people's failure to "keep the Torah according to God's bidding". The memorial service of the Jewish liturgy conducted during festivals and Holy Days recalls the lives of the departed relations of the worshipers.
