The Holocaust History Museum

A somber place!

The first thing you notice about this building is its amazing structure, it is truly grand.  A decade in the making this Holocaust History Museum combines the best of Yad Vashems expertise, resources and state of the art exhibits to take Holocaust remembrance into the 21st century.

Its never easy walking thru these places with so much sadness but this time I felt like I must, one of the sections that was very moving to be in was the circular hall, this main circular hall houses the extensive collection of "The Pages of Testimony" short biographies of each Holocaust Victim.  Over two million pages are stored in the circular repository, around the outer edge of the hall, with room for six million in all, its overwhelming.
I just thought that if I cant go in just because it "upsets"me what about them and their pain and suffering, I wanted to acknowledge to them that I am there and that the world knows what happened to them, thru this museum, it knows,  not to understand what happened to them, because i will never understand why that needed to happen, because it didnt, but to say to them that i know you have suffered and to in some small way share in their pain and listen to them.

They have made a beautiful "Childrens Remembrance" in here they have music playing, and a recording saying all the names of the children and their ages so that they too will not be forgotten, its a very beautiful place,  there are no pictures just hundreds of little lights that look like stars.

One of the plaques reads:
"remember only that I was innocent and, just like you, mortal on that day, I too had had a face marked by rage, by pity and joy, quite simply a human face!"
Benjamin Fondane, Exodus
Murdered at Auschwitz 1944