What is the theme in A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell?

Another theme is devine judgment or rather lack of it. Russell's story illustrates her belief that it does not matter if your deeds are good or bad, if you are a caring, kind person or a murderer. She almost implies that, at least during World War II, everything depended on luck and whether one was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Both good people and bad meet with violent death, and sometimes the worst people survive. The random chaos generated by war does not pick and choose its victims based on their morality. This theme has been repeated by holocaust victims for many years. No fine qualities of intelligence, honor, or generosity spared people from Hitler's sweeps. Those who were sent to camps and the ovens were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.