Today We Visited the Holocaust Museum - Yad Vashem Martyrs' & Heroes' Rememberance Memorial ~

 We knew it would be a hard place to go see...and yet we both felt we needed to!  The museum was on the other side of Jerusalem...and so it gave us a good over view of the City!

 We traveled over a uniquely built bridge.

 Then we came to an area that had pines everywhere...nice!  The smell was so  familiar!

Ah it smelled so good...certainly brought us back in mind...to Oregon!

The Museum was located on Mt Herzl...where there is a cemetery of the people involved in making Israel a State.  Here rests the Leaders of Zionist who worked together to make Israel what it is today....a Jewish State.  We did not enter into the cemetery but walked to the museum. 

 It was a beautiful building and memorial of the suffering that the Jews experienced!  It was shocking to see & hear what we did today!  We were not allowed to take pictures inside.  We rented a earphone and walked through the rooms and displays.

Oh Lord 6 Million people died...how shocking to read & see it...today!  The suffering...families being torn apart from one another!  Well first of all...can you imagine living in your house, working in your own town...and having soldiers line you up outside and herd you into a truck...train - like animals for days on end...squeezed into those trains...with no food, no toilets, no heat in the middle of winter...mothers, fathers, children, the elderly?  Then to be brought to horrible places to live...2-5 years...fathers torn away from their wives...children torn away from their mothers...oh it was a shocking reality what we saw today!

We MUST always  remember...we must not forget...that these things happened and that "mankind" can so easily be swayed into a certain direction....it happens...it happended...all over the world....oh we must be ever so careful! I think we all should visit a place like this...see names...see faces...see that this can happen ~ seeing the faces just like you & I ..people living their lives, wanting a better life for their children, living and earning a living...and then suddenly!  

I was brought up with stories from both my mother (born in Holland- who watched her neighbors being pulled out of their house & taken away in a truck) and my father...who lived in Indonesia, and invaded and taken into hard labor~ We all need to be aware...and pray for the nations - pray for respect for one another...show respect for one another... KNOW THAT WE ARE CREATED EQUAL - WE ARE CREATED IN GOD'S IMAGE...OH MAY WE NEVER FORGET....



We headed by tram rail to the Old City again...this time entering through the Damascus Gate!

 There was a lot of activity going on...there was a Sunday market  going on...many stands selling fruits & vegetables..and goods!

 Oh my this is the LARGEST CAULIFLOWER
... I have ever set my eyes on....BIG! 

 The fruits were delicious looking!

 We walked through the alley ways heading this time towards the Jaffa Gate entrance that we had entered into on the  first day!  Nick & I wanted to go to the Tower of David...but it was already closed at this time of the day. 

 We decided to have a bite to eat...and went to the very first place we had gone before...and had a great Greek salad...and some chicken skewers with grilled veggies!  Nice!  We enjoyed some fresh humus with hot pita bread....hmmmm good!  We had built up an appetite and realized it was close to dinner time anyway!



It gets dark later here in Israel...around 8 - 8:30 pm...we walked around a bit and found an area that we had not seen before...so we will have to return to that in the next few days! 

 So much history here in Jerusalem! Outside of the Old City is a much larger Jerusalem...but I think we are both drawn to seeing the old sights~

This young girl was playing the harp so peacefully up on a ledge - at the Jaffa Gate entrance!

What a sweet sight..she looks like an angel serenading us...Yes Peace ...Peace for Israel and Peace for Jerusalem and yes Peace for all Nations & mankind...may it be so!