Great Day!!!

Well...where to start? We started off the day at the a Holocaust Museum. And I just have to say, that it was one of the most heart wrenching experiences I have ever had at a museum. In the United States, whenever I had a class on the Holocaust, or went to a museum on one, they always taught me about the camps and what happened at that time, but it seems like they would just go over everything quickly to get right to the involvement of the US. When we went in we were given 2 hours to explore and learn on our own. At first I really didn't think that we would need all that time to go through everything, but once we started going through the different rooms and reading the stories of the people I couldn't help, but stop and take everything in. These were real people, who had lives, hopes and dreams. These were also all their possessions all across the museum. For example at one point there was a pile of shoes in the ground, covered by glass, taken off a group of Jews after they were exterminated, and it just hit my like a ton of bricks. Someone actually walked around, saw the world and experienced different things in those very shoes. They hoped for someone or something to save them, yet all that remains of them were a pile of worn shoes.
i read stories of fathers, mothers and children...they were just regualar people, living regular lives, but because of their beliefs and backgrounds they were singled out and punished. I now pray for those who went through this horrible time in history, and that the world will never forget what happened all those years ago...for all we know, as Christians that can very well be us one day. Having our picture in a museum, because we were Christians and someone didn't believe in our cause, so they felt it right to do the same to us.
Overall today was quite the eye opener...the Holocaust wasn't just something that happened during WWII, but it was a time in history where a generation was killed off. It's said that if all those children hat were killed, were still alive we would have things such as the cell phone over 60 years ago, and would have been so much more advanced than what we are today. At the end of the museum, they have building commemorated to all the children that died during the Holocaust...when you walk into this dark building, resembling the night sky a child's name and the age that he/she died is said. If the recording were to play nonstop, for 24 hour, t could play for over 4 months. I know, that's a a ton of lives lost! Yet, the only thing we can do is remember, and pray for those who died, and hope that this memory lives on in everyone's mind, so that something like this never happens again.