We made a somber visit to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum. The Children’s memorial was particularly beautiful and moving, a single light reflected in mirrors represents the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust. As you walk through the dimly lit path, the names of the children and their birthdays are recited in Hebrew, German and English. The question arises of how come there weren’t people who stopped this atrocity? At the end of the exhibit, they identify “righteous” people, people who helped the Jews, like Oscar Schindler. Would we have been one of the righteous people if we had been there? Michael felt angry when we were done, angry that someone didn’t stand up to the evil and prevent the deaths of so many. I felt sad. I related on the level of a mother. I thought of Anat who is Jewish, how does she feel when she walks through this museum? I also thought about how Jews have been persecuted throughout history, even though God told them they were the chosen people.