Yad Vashem

We visited Yad Vashem today. We would know it better as The Holocaust Museum. That was not easy to walk through. If you are interested here is their website www.yadvashem.org/

There are so many memories from there. I struggle to start to describe what it was like. They started with videos from before all the troubles started and there were Jewish communities. Then they showed some of the beginnings of the rise of German power and some of the anti-Semitic laws. They take it all the way though until the Allied victory and beyond to the Israeli state independence in May of 1948. There were constant interviews of people that survived. They talked about all kinds of issues and experiences they faced.

After one is done touring through the memorial, as you exit you see a view of Jerusalem that says it all about where they have come from to where they are now!