Rachel Lucas went to Auschwitz....

And nails it.

http://www.rachellucas.com/index.php/2009/08/24/we-have-to-go-into-the-despair-and-go-beyond-it-by-using-for-someone-else/

My effort to use my despair was to adopt two children, when I lost my wife and children to jealousy and the legal system. So I was able to continue, in the hope that someday I could make sense out of it.

I haven't yet, but I have done some good in the mean time.