Just as the Mountains Surround Jerusalem – News from Jerusalem

I’ve been to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, twice. Neither was a quick trip. For one, the museum is huge. And so it should be. Because it tells a huge story. Or rather, it tells millions of smaller life stories slotting into one another. Tiny fragments interwoven, yet somehow still distinct. Because the Holocaust isn’t simply a collective noun, the assembly of similar events and biographies into a horrific whole. It’s about the people who lived, suffered, died and survived it. It tells of the names, the faces, the hopes and the fears that translate into a life story. To show the beauty that was as proof that evil didn’t triumph.
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