First Visit to Yad Vashem

Yesterday, we visited the World Holocaust Memorial of Yad Vashem and it was my first time experiencing it. It left me speechless.

Growing up you learn about the horrors of the Holocaust. You learn about the facts and how six million Jews were exterminated. But for how awful I thought it was, that doesn't compare to the feeling after you visit Yad Vashem. The personal stories, the terrifying pictures, and videos of starving, mutilated bodies, the shoes of men, women, and children who's lives were ripped from them, the broken families, and the children's memorial. I thought I knew the severity going into this visit, but leaving it was too unreal. There is not a word in any language that can even begin to describe how awful it was. It just baffling to think that there were human beings who could scapegoat, target, torture, and eliminate a culture for no reason. It's monstrous. But understand that these, people these Nazis, were not monsters. They were human beings. Calling them monsters strips their humanity, which is not what I want. They were humans. Humans with no morality, no worth, worse than the worst thing you can think of. 

Bradley is pictured below at Yad Vashem..

"Yad Vashem was an experience that leaves you speechless. So many emotions, so much to be grateful for. #NeverForget"