Poland Israel Journey '18

Wednesday, May 9th - Wednesday, May 16th 2018

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Auschwitz - Hariette Fleising

Eve and I walked through the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

 

We held onto each other trembling as we saw the barracks, the cattle cars on the train tracks, the towers and the ovens.

 

How could this be humanly possible for anyone to have inflicted these horrific crimes on our people?

 

I visualized our own family members being shoved along with hundreds of others to an unknown destination.

 

They died "Al Kiddish Hashem" sanctifying Hashem's name with "Shema Yisrael" on their lips. We have no answers that could possibly justify any of this.

 

We portrayed our revenge to those murderers by paying our respects to all of our holy family members. We wept for what could have been.

 

We wept for all of the losses of our loved ones. We prayed for their neshamot to have an Aliya!