Jerusalem: Knesset, Yad Vashem
Trip Start
Jul 06, 2006
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Trip End
Jul 20, 2006
Jerusalem,
Israel
Thursday, July 6, 2006
Israel arrival
Israel 1st dinner
Israeli beer
Today was the first day of a family tour in Israel. I arrived in Israel with Diana and my parents and joined up with my Aunt Elaine and cousins Kevin and Sheryl and their three children, and other friends and family. We were all here on this tour to celebrate my cousin Mathew's Bar Mitzvah.
We started the tour in Jerusalem when we arrived at the Knesset Building
at 8:30AM and toured the government building. The building also had an enormous magnificently painted Chagall wall.
Knesset Building
Knesset menorah
Later we visited the Hadassa hospital and incredibly inside was a small
synagogue with 12 stained glass Chagall windows.
Chagall windows 1
Chagall windows 2
Chagall windows 3
We ended the day by visiting Yad Vashem. This was a very moving museum
documenting the rise of Adolf Hitler and the impact of Nazi Germany on
Jewish people and the murdering of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust.
There was an excellent memorial for the 1 million children who had been
killed with a candle display.
Yad Vashem
Later we went to Mt. Moriah to have an excellent look down on the city of
Jerusalem. There were great views of Dome of the Rock, the walled
city, the Russian Church of Mary Magdalene, the Church of Ascention and
more.
Mt. Moriah view
Basilica of the Agony
Church of mary Magdalene
At the end of the day we went to see the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Dead Sea Scrolls
Comments
Yad Vashem
Just to put the importance of the picture of Yad Vashem in context:
I believe the picture is of Yanosh Korchack, a Polish educator and manager of the Jewish orphanage in Warsaw.
In the beginning of WWII, the Nazis deported the children to the concentration camp at Treblinka. They offered to spare Korchack's life if he would agree to part with the children. However he showed unbelievable courage and chose to accompany the orphans to the death camp in hopes to provide them with care.
The children and Korchack were murdered in Treblinka in 1942.
He wrote many children books, which I used to love as a kid and will try to get them for my kids when they are of age.
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