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My thoughts are with you as you begin your travels. Here's to an uneventful flight!
ReplyDeleteBrandon,
ReplyDeleteHave an amazing trip. We saw the Holocaust Monument in Vienna yesterday. Kids were running all around the platz (square). It was neat the way it was just part of where they were playing. It was the Sabbath and looked like their parents were at services while they played. It is a simple monument but the idea is that all the great accomplishments that could have been were lost by the senseless genocide of the 35,000 Austrian Jews. The memorial is suppose to be a library turned inside out. Can't wait to hear about your trip!
Mr Barr What an honor. I am so happy for you. The best to you on this trip and may it be a most wonderful learning experiece.
ReplyDeleteDana,
ReplyDeleteI will have to check that out. Holocaust memorials are always interesting to me. It is a challenge to honor individuals who lost their lives during that sad period of history. It sounds like Vienna took a good approach.
I guess you were able to figure out the directions in German. :)
Hi Brandon - I so appreciate what you wrote about how all the people who died were individuals & not just a number. Although I am not Jewish, I did grow up in a somewhat diverse neighborhood in Brooklyn NY. I had several neighbors with numbers tatooed on their arms. Their children were my age and my friends. My father was a WW2 veteran. My mother told me all about what the tatooes meant and the unthinkable things that had happened to those particular individual neighbors. I think it is important that we remember that in any genocide, the people who are murdered are individuals with lives and stories. Thanks so much for the blog - Cathy Shanley
ReplyDeleteBrandon,
ReplyDeleteYour blog is awesome! Sounds like a whirlwind schedule. Really interesting. These countries seem to be so aware of their history and the importance of WWII. Lots of us are following you!!