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Lets not forget: Rehovot 11th Grade Student Writes About the Holocaust, Part 1
Read what these 4 11th graders doing Bagrut this year wrote:
Part 1, essay by Hillel Fried
My family went through the Holocaust and I feel it’s important for us to visit .
In addition I think it’s important for the young generation to know their history and hopefully then they can prevent something like this from happening again.
I also felt that it is important to show these polish people that “ Am Israel Chai”
By coming there we show that our generations have continued and prospered.
Our school tried to prepare us for what we would see on our trip to Poland. As much as we had thought that we were ready for it ,we couldn’t ever be ready for what we were about to see.
I had family in Hungary- My grandma’s parents came from Lithuania.
I’m going to speak about 2 things that made a big impression on me.
The first is the Memorial Room in Auschwitz 1.
We lit candles and each brought names of their family. Each one called out their names and said a few words about the people.
This visit changed the atmosphere of the trip. It really hit us, walking in this place between shoes, eyeglasses, suitcases --- hair and then speaking about our dead family. All these people were our brothers.
The second was Birkenau
The barracks were destroyed and all that can be seen are chimneys. There had been hundreds of them. Before this we saw the railroad - this railroad went right to the gas chambers. Here the people were selected. Those who would be going to work camps and those who would die.
Peoples’ identity was taken away from them. They were stripped of anything personal, for example jewelry, they might have taken with them. Numbers were tattooed on their arms, hair was shaven. All were given uniforms.
There we had a ceremony
We saw a display of pictures – of 3,000 people. Each one of them had a life… a family who loved them.
That was a very difficult day for us. When we returned to our hotel in the evening we were struck by the fact that we were the lucky ones. We were free. We felt alive.
Our Jewish family hadn’t been able to escape from this – They had to bear it day - in day out.
Thank God we had just one tiny taste of what they went through and felt so thankful that we were not part of it and were free after all. Our reaction that evening was such a mixed one. We all laughed and cried at the same time.
When I think about it I have never laughed and cried so much all in one week.
Source: Read what students from Amit Rehovot wrote on the trip to Poland: http://www.1202.org.il/Russian/template/default.asp
Part 1, essay by Hillel Fried
My family went through the Holocaust and I feel it’s important for us to visit .
In addition I think it’s important for the young generation to know their history and hopefully then they can prevent something like this from happening again.
I also felt that it is important to show these polish people that “ Am Israel Chai”
By coming there we show that our generations have continued and prospered.
Our school tried to prepare us for what we would see on our trip to Poland. As much as we had thought that we were ready for it ,we couldn’t ever be ready for what we were about to see.
I had family in Hungary- My grandma’s parents came from Lithuania.
I’m going to speak about 2 things that made a big impression on me.
The first is the Memorial Room in Auschwitz 1.
We lit candles and each brought names of their family. Each one called out their names and said a few words about the people.
This visit changed the atmosphere of the trip. It really hit us, walking in this place between shoes, eyeglasses, suitcases --- hair and then speaking about our dead family. All these people were our brothers.
The second was Birkenau
The barracks were destroyed and all that can be seen are chimneys. There had been hundreds of them. Before this we saw the railroad - this railroad went right to the gas chambers. Here the people were selected. Those who would be going to work camps and those who would die.
Peoples’ identity was taken away from them. They were stripped of anything personal, for example jewelry, they might have taken with them. Numbers were tattooed on their arms, hair was shaven. All were given uniforms.
There we had a ceremony
We saw a display of pictures – of 3,000 people. Each one of them had a life… a family who loved them.
That was a very difficult day for us. When we returned to our hotel in the evening we were struck by the fact that we were the lucky ones. We were free. We felt alive.
Our Jewish family hadn’t been able to escape from this – They had to bear it day - in day out.
Thank God we had just one tiny taste of what they went through and felt so thankful that we were not part of it and were free after all. Our reaction that evening was such a mixed one. We all laughed and cried at the same time.
When I think about it I have never laughed and cried so much all in one week.
Source: Read what students from Amit Rehovot wrote on the trip to Poland: http://www.1202.org.il/Russian/template/default.asp
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