Yad Vashem is the Holocaust Museum in Israel
Part of the holocaust museum, Yad Vashem, is not on solid ground (floating) because the Jewish people lost their "roots" during the holocaust. It is also half the star of David, representing half the Jewish population dying.
The garden of the righteous gentiles.
This tree was planted for the Schindler's. Oscar Schindler is buried outside the wall of Jerusalem.
Stones have been placed on the statues here. This is because many people who passed away have no grave.
6.000.000 - that is so many, you just can't get your head around it. Inside the museum were many recordings of people affected by the holocaust. One was from a man, I missed the first part but he had lost his hat, and everyone without a hat was executed in the camp he was in. In the middle of the night he went around his barrack and pulled someone's hat from his hands and used it the next morning. A man was asked where his hat was and was executed on the spot. The voice said that he hadn't looked to see who it was because he didn't want to know whose death he had caused. You could hear in his voice the anguish and guilt he still lived with.
Names of concentration camps, with a burning flame
These two pictures are symbols of the Children that died -unfinished pillars and building (representing their unfinished lives).
The Children's museum was very touching too. It was dark inside and you held a bar and walked
in the dark. There were hundreds of little candle flames in the darkness. Voices took turns to say the name, age, and country of children who had died during the holocaust. For example: "Chaya, 7 years old", was the last name I heard walking through. One girl in our group is named Chaya...
Stones have been placed on the statues here. This is because many people who passed away have no grave.
6.000.000 - that is so many, you just can't get your head around it. Inside the museum were many recordings of people affected by the holocaust. One was from a man, I missed the first part but he had lost his hat, and everyone without a hat was executed in the camp he was in. In the middle of the night he went around his barrack and pulled someone's hat from his hands and used it the next morning. A man was asked where his hat was and was executed on the spot. The voice said that he hadn't looked to see who it was because he didn't want to know whose death he had caused. You could hear in his voice the anguish and guilt he still lived with.
Names of concentration camps, with a burning flame
These two pictures are symbols of the Children that died -unfinished pillars and building (representing their unfinished lives).
The Children's museum was very touching too. It was dark inside and you held a bar and walked
Ezekiel 37:14, written on the exit.
"I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it, declares the LORD."
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