Yad Vashem

Our first stop of Day 10 was the Yad Vashem, which means "hand name" and is a Jewish idiom for memory or remembrance. This Jewish Holocaust Museum is a memorial to the millions of Jewish people who were annihilated by the Nazis prior to and during World War II. It is a touching remembrance to the Jewish people. Thousands of artifacts donated by survivors of those horrible days. Especially touching was the memorial to the children in which the names of the hundreds of thousands of children who died are read. A quote depicted in the museum reads, "A country is not just what it does. It is also what it tolerates." -- Kurt Tucholsky, essayist of Jewish origin
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