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Traveling down South

Hello curious people! Tonight, for those of you that care, I will be bedding down in a small and sweaty room with three of my (literally) closest friends. Shirts will be off, beds will be stripped, the AC will be blasting, to no apparent avail.

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Yad Vashem and Shabbat in Shorashim

We started the day at Yad Vashem, it is a musuem dedicated to the memory of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. The musuem is so large that it is impossible to see everything in one day.  The tour consisted of the outdoor musuem with memorials dedicated to the Holocaust. When I walked through the musuem I got a chill that ran throughout my body, it was hard for me to cope with the realty of what took place to the Jewish people in the Holocaust, when I thought of it I was wondering what our country would look like with 6 million more people inside of it.  As part of the tour we split up into 4 groups, we were supposed to choose from a list of words that described our feelings as it relates to the Holocasut.  Words like pride, hate, pain, confusion, happiness, dissapointment, empathy and guilt.  We had to choose an emotion that related to our feelings.  One of the most emotional moments was when Alyssa told the group about a conversation she had with Eden,  she told us that during one of the hjikes she told Eden that her country is pretty and Eden told her its not only her country but Alyssa's as well.  Alyssa also us told about her grandparents survival of the Holocaust and how important Israel is to her and her family. We saw a cattle car that was used to transport Jews to the extermination camps.  After I saw the cattle car I realized that the world witnessed the Holocaust and did nothing to stop it.

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