Jerusalem — You walk into the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem and the walls already seem to be closing in on you. That’s by design. Imagine what it was to be brought into one of the concentration camps to die.
I’ve walked through the camps in Auschwitz and Dachau. Auschwitz on a brutally hot August day, not having the nerve to complain. At Yad Vashem, I didn’t have the nerve to cry until we watched the liberation of some of the camps. Documentary footage showed piles of bodies being removed — what else was there to do? Videos showed people who were emaciated. They were soon to die. Even after liberation, people died. You don’t think about that every day. You think about the gas chambers, but you don’t think about the death that was still to come.
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