Meanwhile, since the Yad Vashem Museum has recently received the Spanish Peace Prize, it should take a new leadership role and at least work a bit more towards education and peace in Israel by connecting the dots better in its historical narration of both the Holocaust and the “reason for being” of the state of Israel.
In Israel, no institution—not even museums—are an island separate from the politics of hate and peace around them.
Please, Yad Vashem, connect the dots to Israel’s present today and tomorrow!
POSTLUDE
Outside of the Museum Complex of Yad Vashem is a train car seated on a train track going nowhere.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/westerborktrain.html
On the wall below the Gestapo modified-freight car, which once took victims of the Holocausts to their end, are the words of one of the Nazi victims who road that particular train to his or her death.
Written in pencil by one of the seats were these following words--which stopped so abruptly:
“Here in the carload,
I am Eve,
With Abel my son,
If you see my other son
Cain Son of Man
Tell him I …”
This is the Memorial to Deportation which commemorates the victims who went by their millions to their deaths during the Nazi-era.
What was the intent of the writer?
