There have been quite a number of substantial responses, and it will take me some time to sift through them.

Some appear to have grasped the difference between a setting-forth, a description or explanation, of Christian teaching, on the one hand, and proselytization, on the other.  I would not here try to engage in the latter.  I was at pains to point out that one can arrive at much the same conclusions without the Christian mythological construct
— as I said, "The right question and right answer don't depend on mythological mediation" — 
per that portion of the post (link) subtitled "EIN SOF."

A different way of putting it, in case no one has already covered this in the posts I've not yet examined, would be:
Is God ever absent from your times of need? 
I assume Judaism answers, "No," and such answer obviously does not depend in any way on Jesus.

Vikkilyn, the difference is between setting forth what Christianity teaches, on the one hand, and setting forth my personal belief, on the other.  I can say that, for many, many years, I found incarnational theology extremely persuasive.

Sophiee, it does seem clear that the Nazis intended this atrocity as some sort of re-enactment of the event alleged in the GT.

Zvi, no, I have not read that work.

Uri, please note that I've not used any form of the verb "sacrifice" in this discussion.

Whoops, I see just now that that term is quite prominent in Sophiee's Reply No. 300.  It is not a term I introduced.  She continues: 

We should not blame G-d when men choose death.

I have no interest in excusing evil.  It also makes no sense to suppose that I blame God, in that I locate God in these situations as wholly present with the person who is suffering, present at the atomic level, at the cell level, at the sensory level ...

It is interesting that Benedict XVI asked the same question as did the Jewish character in Elie Wiesel's novel. 
Would people here agree, or disagree, with Wiesel's answer?
  

P.

“What I admire is honesty and truth, no matter who, or what, the sources are.”
— Uri Yosef
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