Last week we spent the week learning about the Holocaust. On Tuesday there was a Holocaust survivor who talked to us, then after we had class with a break for lunch, then we had night class. This sucked because in addition to having to learn about the Holocaust I was not able to see my cousin who was in Israel for only 1 week because I was not allowed to miss this class. On Wednesday we went to Lochamei Haghettaot which is a museum about the Ghetto fighters, out of the whole week Lochamei Haghettaot was the only museum that I liked. I liked it the most because it upset me the least. That night we watched the movie “Escape from Sobibor” it was interesting, but it left me in a bad mood after watching it. Thursday was the Jewish fast day of Ta’anit Esther and it also happened to be the day that we went to Yad Vashem which is the main Holocaust museum.

Learning about the Holocaust always really stinks, but learning about it here was even worse. Because for literally 1 week all we learned about was the Holocaust, for 13 hours a day we learned about people who wanted us to die. It was really depressing.

Personally I am effected by the Holocaust because 3 of my 4 grandparents are survivors.