The Holocost Museum



The Holocost was one of the most devistating events in Jewish history.  Having happened only about 70 years ago, it is still very fresh in their minds and hearts.  So important is it to them that they will not let political leaders from other countries to meet with their own in Isreal until they have visited the Holocost Museum. 

The Holocost was a time of great evil on Earth.  Nazi Germany was not committing just mass murder, but the attempt at complete annihilation.  It is extremely important to remember this time, not only for all the evil that was done, but all the ways God intervened.  It is in the darkest moments that the light of God is able to shine even brighter. 

The first building we walked into while there (after the reception) was a tribute to the children who were killed in this time.  It was extremely powerful.  We walked into this pitch black room filled with mirrors and candles.  Each candle representing of one child's life.  As we stood in that room, a voice was over the speakers that listed off the names of children killed and how old they were.  The sound filled the room as if swelling up a balloon.  None of us spoke. 

Then we all headed to the main building which housed the stories and relics of this era of evility.   There we heard the stories.  And what stories they were. 

We went through six gigantic rooms which held these artifacts, and came to one final room.

The ceiling was domed and covered with the pictures of these victims.  Then on every wall, there were book cases.  Each book was dedicated to these people and their story. 

The whole museum shows the great evil done to the Jews in this time.  But outside lining the pathways are trees.  Each tree dedicated to a person who helped protect the children of God. 

The Holocost was evil, but in the midst of the evil we must also remember the beauty.  There is no darkness so deep that God's plan is not deeper still.  In this time, God was working.  He was working in all of the people of righteousness, he was working in the hearts of the victims, he was even working in the very souls of the concentration camps.  God had a plan, even when it seemed that he had turned his face away. 

That is why we remember the Holocost.

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