Miracles...
After my shower, I decided to flip through channels, because when I was eating dinner there were 2 good programs on NBC. I came across a program on PBS about the ghetto Terezin in Prague that we visited. There was even a scene of a man who had been in the ghetto sitting in the secret synagogue and talking about some of his memories and experiences in the ghetto. I remember sitting in the synagogue and contemplating God and how these prisoners, who ultimately ended up in Auschwitz, hell on Earth, could still believe in God enough to make a secret synagogue. I remember walking into the gas chamber there and seeing nail marks on the wall. When the program ended a few minutes ago, I just sat and cried. As much as I study about the Holocaust, the less I understand. How could something like this have happened and more importantly, how did so many people survive under these conditions and still retain their faith in God? I think that the survivors are proof of living miracles. People ask why I have such a newfound dedication to Israel and/or such a desire to move there and establish a life there when the economy is unstable and it is unsafe, or less safe than America. I think of the feeling I got when I landed back in Israel after visiting Prague and Poland. A tingle came over my body, as if I knew that was what I was supposed to do. As if that was the greatest gift I could give to the people who perished in the Holocaust; a chance to live in a place free from persecution, a beautiful place that Jews could call their own. If my parents had let me move there next year as I wanted to, I would have loved to fight in the army, just to further fulfill this gift.
It hurts so much that people can be so ignorant. How some people don't know what happened in the Holocaust besides the number 6,000,000. How some people deny that it happened. How some people can make jokes about "burning in ovens". How so much information was destroyed by the Nazis and soon, most people who actually experienced the horrors of the Holocaust will be dead, so what will happen then? The Holocaust is so scary to me because it encompasses the true success of evil genius. The Nazis, especially Hitler, were genius. Evil geniuses, but geniuses nonetheless. They were unstoppable for so long, they were feared, and they came close to acheiving their goal. September 11 is another success of evil genius, as well. The fact that there are so many people in the world who use their intelligence for evil is scary. I wonder how many of these people could have used their intelligence for other things; making the world a better place. I can't help but wonder what those 6,000,000 Jews and others that the Nazis murdered during WW2 could have accomplished. Whether they could be like Einstein or amazing artists or just average Europeans with happy families. No one will ever know...because of the evil geniuses.
It hurts so much that people can be so ignorant. How some people don't know what happened in the Holocaust besides the number 6,000,000. How some people deny that it happened. How some people can make jokes about "burning in ovens". How so much information was destroyed by the Nazis and soon, most people who actually experienced the horrors of the Holocaust will be dead, so what will happen then? The Holocaust is so scary to me because it encompasses the true success of evil genius. The Nazis, especially Hitler, were genius. Evil geniuses, but geniuses nonetheless. They were unstoppable for so long, they were feared, and they came close to acheiving their goal. September 11 is another success of evil genius, as well. The fact that there are so many people in the world who use their intelligence for evil is scary. I wonder how many of these people could have used their intelligence for other things; making the world a better place. I can't help but wonder what those 6,000,000 Jews and others that the Nazis murdered during WW2 could have accomplished. Whether they could be like Einstein or amazing artists or just average Europeans with happy families. No one will ever know...because of the evil geniuses.