Is History Bound to Repeat Itself?

In January 1933, the world watched a maniac assume power in Germany.  At the time, there were roughly 9 million Jews living in Europe.  By 1945, Nazi Germany occupied almost every one of those European countries and 2/3 of European Jews were killed.  They died, not as casualties of World War II which ravaged Europe, but …

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Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum

How do I describe Yad Vashem? More importantly, how do I describe what Yad Vashem memorializes? Pictures are not allowed inside the museum, and I don't have words to express what it is like to see, hear and experience Yad Vashem. The rise of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich brought about the ideology of …

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