Yad Vashem

Day 12, Friday 20

Today was a difficult day because we went to Yad Vashem. It was a very hard topic to grasp on to. It shocked us that the Nazis could do the terrible things that they did during the Holocaust to Jews and other people who were different from them.  We went through the memorial museum first and learned all about how the war began and why, and about the Ghettos that the Jews were held in. We also learned all about the concentration camps and what happened to the people that the Nazis kept there.  After that part of the museum we went to the children’s memorial which was really hard for us because we heard names of kids our age who died, and it was hard for us to imagine children like us in that situation.  After Yad Vashem we went to Machane Yehudah and walked around for a while.  We ate falafel and shopped both at the marketplace and at a street filled with jewelry and art made by local artists.  Now we are preparing for Shabbat.

Shabbat Shalom,

The 8th grade

PS~After Shabbat we will tell you all about our exhausting, yet interesting day yesterday.