When you go inside, the antechamber explains that the walls are covered by the names of Czech and Moravian Jewish victims of the holocaust.pic.twitter.com/lmt6ikmV0p
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When you go inside, the antechamber explains that the walls are covered by the names of Czech and Moravian Jewish victims of the holocaust.pic.twitter.com/lmt6ikmV0p
As you look closely, you begin to understand the scale.pic.twitter.com/ni8ttGN9QG
But the scale isn't clear until you experience the totality. This is just one section out of many.pic.twitter.com/zMbGavdliE
I'm sharing this because I feel it's important to understand scale when we understand history.
I'm a mathematician. I have intuitions about scale that most people probably don't have. Still, this struck me.
"Never again" is an easy thing to say. I guess my point here is that it's not as easy to understand and live as it may seem.
I was trying so hard not to lose it and cave in there.
You weren't alone in that.
.@EmilyGorcenski My shul has on display 9 items from the synagogue at Kolin & we speak a few of their names at every service.
the Torah I read from at my Bat Mitzvah was rescued in the Holocaust #neveragain
I cried through the entire experience. Seeing all of those names on all of those walls took my breath away with sadness.
Somehow I've never been - felt like too much of the tourist trail I guess? Seeing this though. Yeah, time to visit.
my wife and I went there this summer. It was alot to take in.
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