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Vad Yashem

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Yesterday we spent most of the day visiting Vad Yashem, the holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.

To say that it was an emotional and memorable experience would be a vast understatement.  

The memorial is set out in such a way that it takes you through chronologically the events that led up to the horrific events that we know as the Holocaust.  The culpability of the nations and the Catholic church were visually and graphically exposed and I noted with shame that in the exhibit that outlined how the nations turned their back on accepting Jewish refugees, the comments by the Australian representative was the only one noted.

I cannot even begin to describe how affecting the experience was to walk through hour after hour of exhibits, listen to survivors' testaments and view the artifacts that are a reminder of the horrors these precious people endured.

It is right for them to remember and continually stand guard against the nations that rail against them to this day, threatening their very existence again.

The walk through the memorial finished with the Children's Memorial and this was at once a beautiful yet tragic display to ensure that not one of the 1.5 million children that perished be forgotten.

So as I pray for the peace of Jerusalem I'm sure these images will come to mind.


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