There is a break in a rail of the old tracks by a platform where Jews were once loaded on cars for their trip to Auschwitz. In the film Elisabeth of Berlin, the camera lingers on this detail. The break in the tracks seems to suggest what the power of Christian conscience might have meant, and what it could mean for a society heading in the wrong direction.
Elisabeth of Berlin, a 59-minute independent documentary by Rev. Steven D. Martin, a Methodist minister from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, highlights the story of a woman who died in obscurity, but lived a life now celebrated by leading Christian thinkers. Scholars of the anti-Nazi resistance are astonished by what Elisabeth Schmitz did and the risks she took—she fits, one says in the film, “the Protestant definition of a saint.” But until 2004, not only were her life and work largely unknown but her most remarkable act had been mistakenly attributed to someone else.
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