Humanitas and forgiveness

Clemency and humanity as a source of toleration. About the biological tendency to forgiveness, the humanity of Cicero, the source of Jesus' forgiveness, and about repentance and retribution.

In May 1942, a well-dressed woman entered the Ten Boom jewellery store on Barteljorisstraat in Haarlem. She had heard that the devout Calvinist Ten Boom family had provided aid to their Jewish neighbours. The woman was also Jewish. Her husband had been arrested, her son had gone into hiding, and she did not know where to go. The woman was given shelter …