Car crash 1996 in Poland,
after 40 days in Cheong Peong
6 million Jews lost their lifes due to
Nazi's aggression against the Jewish race
Vienna, November 2006
Dear all,
I’d like to share a testimony dealing with indemnity conditions concerning collective sins, occurring in my family about ten years ago.
I guess you still remember when I wrote to the list, that my family had a car accident in Poland in 1996. That same year I attended together with my wife a 40 day seminar with Heung Jin Nim and Dae Mo Nim in Chung Pyung. At the end of the 40 days, I drew by lottery the National Messiahship for the Philippines. Before that, I was a missionary in Russia from 1992 until 1996.
After I returned to Russia, we prepared ourselves for the new mission in the Philippines. On the way to Germany, in Poland, while travelling in a mini bus, my wife and our three small children got seriously hurt in a tragic car accident.
One passenger got immediately killed. The driver got very seriously injured as well. Our youngest daughter Eleonora (at that time she was four years old), got seriously injured as well and fell in a coma. The doctors in the hospital told me, that she may not recover anymore and might not survive. I saw my four-year-old daughter struggling with life saving instruments. I felt so much pain, that I might lose her. I had to cry. I contacted Dae Mo Nim in Korea and explained what had happened to my family. Then, after three days, our daughter Eleonora woke up from her coma. The doctors and nurses in the hospital told me, that the survival of my daughter was a sheer miracle. Later on I found out, that Dae Mo Nim had sent good angels to help my daughter to survive. When I asked her what she had experienced in her coma she said: "I have seen strong lights all the time". I believe that angels must have performed surgery on her injured organs, and that was why my daughter got well.
My family in a hospital in Vienna
Over the last ten years we have been struggling a lot, why did this had
happened to our family? I was a missionary for 21 years and faced a couple
of times life and death situations. The question I brought before God was:
why did you allow this accident to happen to our family?
My injured wife and my daughter had to fly from Warsaw to Vienna in a
special ambulance plane. But we had no money. The price of the fare was 8000
US$. My mother in Frankfurt called up the European/German HQ and asked for
some money from the Church. The leadership there declined to give even one
cent. In Russia, where I had been worked for four years, the leadership also
declined to help my injured wife and daughter to fly to a Vienna hospital.
Eleonora and I
Thank God, our Church members in Austria gave me a donation of 3000 US$ and
with donations from my own family raised in Germany and my wife’s relatives,
we could finally get the money together for the ambulance airplane. Today,
perhaps I can call this an additional indemnity condition on top of the
fatal car accident we had been paying already.
During my four years in Russia, I had always this strong intuition, that I
might lose my family in an accident. In August of 1996 the accident occurred
in Poland, just before crossing the German border. This happened while I was
travelling separately to Vienna. On reaching Vienna, I got a phone call from
the Polish Church that my whole family was in the hospital. I wasn’t all
that surprised, because I already had that strong intuition, that something
might happen to my family. Of course, I was very shocked and in tears when
it really happened. Just three weeks before that, I left Chung Pyung with a
high spirit.
Three weeks ago I saw the movie "Schindler’s List". I’ve heard about this
movie often, but for some reason I could never see it. As you know I’m
German and I know all too well what we Germans did during World War II,
especially the committing of atrocities and the genocide against the Jewish
people. Whenever I see movies relating to the Holocaust, I’m always in tears.
The one question always comes: Why? Why?
Seeing the movie "Schindler’s List", I burst into tears and was crying the
whole movie long. I simply couldn’t stop crying. Oscar Schindler, who was
German born, was to more than 1200 Jews all that stood between them and sure
death at the hands of the Nazis. But he remained true to “his Jews”, the
workers he referred to as his children. It reminded me a lot of St. Paul: he
was a persistent persecutor of Early Christians until his experience on the
Road to Damascus, bringing about his conversion to a faith in Jesus as the
Christ and the Son of God.
Now, after ten years, I realize why my family had this terrible car accident
in Poland. It was mainly in Poland where the Nazi regime committed this
terrible crime against the Jewish race.
YES, now I know that my family and I had to pay indemnity for what Germany
did to the Jewish people. In my life I always wanted to serve and love the
Jewish people. From 2001 until 2005 I worked with the "Hebrew Immigrant Aid
Society" (HIAS) in Vienna. It truly was an honor for me to be employed by a
Jewish organization.
The past ten years of my life in the Unification Church have been very tough.
Our son is suffering from Autism, and my daughter Eleonora is still dealing
with a trauma from the car accident in Poland. My eldest son is distant from
the UC, mostly because he still wonders why all of this did happen to our
family. Then, three years ago, I got hit by a car. Fortunately, I did not
get injured. But under more unfortunate circumstances, I could have been
paralyzed. Looking back, I can say that "someone" wanted to kill and destroy
our whole family and we are still recovering from all of this.
June 2007 - With our beloved daughter Eleonora!!