From the English Parsha sheet, on Masei:
“Rav Sternbuch recalls how after World War II his mother was sure that Moshiach’s arrival was imminent. She refused to wear her best jewelry and nicest dress, stating that those were set aside for when Moshiach would come, and she waited for him every day.”
No, Mashiach didn’t, in fact, arrive then. But certainly Ms. Sternbuch’s realization Hashem was starting the process of redemption, after the blow of that Churban is correct.
Her son’s second-hand idea, that Jewry has merely left the “frying pan” of physical destruction in the Holocaust for “the fire” of even worse religious destruction (per גדול המחטיאו מן ההורגו), no more, makes a lot less sense.
And that’s without even going into the Torah sources (and knowing the past and present)…