For one of our field trips we went to a Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem called Yad Vashem. It was a pretty powerful place. I have been to other Holocaust museums so I thought I would be fine but I got choked up in a few areas. The museum started off with history and about WWII. Then it went from how the Jews were put in Ghettos, concentration camps and finally extermination camps. Some of the pictures were pretty graphic and made me feel just horrible. It made me more fully appreciate how thankful I am for not having ever been persecuted for my religious or race. The hardest part about going throught this museum was reading and listening to the stories from survivors and their stories about losing or being separated from family members, never to see them again. There was also a section made in remembrance of all of the children and then finally a reflection room, which was great to sit down and soak in everything I had seen and learned about. Although it was horrible to see all that was at Yad Vashem, it was a good experience to learn more and to be humbled because of all that I have.
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