"Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." Proverbs 19:21
Yes, there were Jewish prisoners in Nazi concentration camps who converted to Christianity, though they were a very small minority and their situations varied greatly. Some conversions happened before arrest, some during imprisonment, and some after liberation. In a few documented cases, individuals turned to Christian faith privately while in camps as a source of hope or meaning amid extreme suffering, often without any formal baptism because religious practice was tightly restricted. Others converted after the war while processing trauma, loss, and questions about God, identity, and survival.
It is important to understand that conversion did not protect anyone in the camps. Under Nazi racial laws, a Jew who converted to Christianity was still considered Jewish and was persecuted the same way. Because of this, conversions during imprisonment were rarely public and were sometimes entirely internal spiritual decisions rather than institutional ones. Some survivors later testified that faith in Jesus helped them endure, while others said the Holocaust permanently severed their relationship with any form of belief.
There are also well-known cases of Jewish believers in Jesus who were already Christians before the war, such as Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Catholic convert who became a Carmelite nun and was murdered at Auschwitz. Her story, and others like it, shows that conversion neither erased Jewish heritage nor altered Nazi persecution. At the same time, many Jewish survivors strongly rejected conversion, seeing their survival itself as a reason to preserve Jewish identity and memory.
Historically, survivor testimonies show every response imaginable: deepened Jewish faith, Christian conversion, loss of belief altogether, or lifelong wrestling with God. The camps did not produce one spiritual outcome, only human beings responding differently to unimaginable evil.
