In Isaiah 56:5 in your English Bibe, you find the phrase “a memorial and a name”.  In Hebrew, those words are “yad vashem,” and they’ve been taken as the title of this Holocaust memorial and museum.

Architecturally significant and surrounded by carefully landscaped memorials, this place provides a very moving experience.  Quite frankly, I found it absolutely silencing.  What is one to say or even think when absolute devastation is placed before you in a flood of images, stories, and descriptions?

Even now, twelve hours after leaving, I don’t know what to write. Continue reading →