A Very Somber Day

Yesterday we went to the Israeli Holocaust museum called Yad Vashem. Ok tear my heart out and throw it into a food processor! It was an incredible display and source of information about the Holocaust from as Jewish of a perspective as it gets. Wow, it was unbelievable, and some of the artifacts they had blew my mind to actually see. 

We learned that the Jews truly did not understand what was going on during these horrible times. They could not understand why suddenly they could no longer go to school, talk to their friends and neighbors, or go to the local grocery store. At the museum they had the actual desk of a Jewish man who was once head of surgery at a major hospital in Germany. He was a brilliant surgeon who was highly respected and known throughout Europe. One day while he was operating on a man, Nazi soldiers burst into his operating room and said, "sir, you are no longer an employee of this hospital, or a licensed doctor as of this moment. Put down the scalpel and step away from the man." Extremely confused and offended, the Dr. replied, "I do not know who you men think you are to enter into my Operating room like this, but let me finish this surgery and I will kindly step outside with you and discuss this matter." "put down the scalpel this instant and come with us", was their reply. And so he did... he had no choice.

There were many stories like this and facts about what went on that I had never even heard before. It was shocking.

For the rest of the night after the museum, the whole center was very quiet and somber. it was kind of depressing- but still an incredible day.