Antisemitism
“And now a prayer—or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all or heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.” – Elie Wiesel, Night
A strikingly beautiful doe raced across the field where jagged trenches, now covered in grass, marked the site where thousands of human lives were stolen.
Perhaps living in an area with such a heavy history requires local inhabitants to compartmentalize the past to function in the present.
It makes me wonder and sometimes despair about how much I don’t know. It also further instills in me a desire to learn more.
This was not a paradise as the word is defined “an ideal or idealistic state,” but rather a brief moment in time where life was a bit better than before, but still with hardship and hatred
the importance of providing witness, and now, as we listen to the speakers and step foot in these important places the responsibility we now carry to do the same.
The tomb stones are weathered, and some have been vandalized.
The Artifacts Collection of Yad Vashem’s Museum is home to more than 27,000 items donated over the years by Holocaust survivors, their families, and various organizations. It includes a wide […]