Yad vashem

*FROM 11/5*
Sorry I didn’t write this last night but I was really tired and was in study mode. Anyway yesterday morning we went to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum. It was really emotional. We walked through with a tour guide and heard many stories of people who survived and people who didn’t. We also learned interesting things such as that the Nazis had a board game for little kids to teach them that it was good to kick all the jews out and the jews had a board game for their kids that taught them how to stay safe. We also went to the room where they have the names of 3.5 million of the jews that were killed (they are still looking for the other 2.5 million names). Unlike the holocaust museum in D.C., Yad Vashem focuses on names and stories rather than numbers. It’s still hard to believe that all those people were killed b/c of one mans ideas and manipulation.
After our tour we went to the Shuk for lunch. Then when we got back to Tzuba, we had like 10 min of free time before the Israelis came. When they got here we had a meeting about the rules and what was going to happen this weekend. Then some of the EIE kids gave them a tour while the rest of us had free time. At 5:45 we had to be at the Belmont for services and then at 8 we had dinner. After dinner we had a program with the Israelis and then bomb shelter, but I didn’t go b/c I was studying for my SAT2s. That’s about all I remember considering I went to be early b/c I was tired and b/c I am trying to get a decent amount of sleep before I take the SAT2s on Sunday morning.