Something odd about that expectation that you would walk around and summon an appropriate feeling for each one. The fact that there were so many also somehow diminished them all. I’m not sure if it was the overt notices about who had donated money to them or something which gave them political overtones and made them feel way too nationalistic. There was something about all the memorials at Yad Vashem that made me feel uncomfortable. I spent my time in the Museum and temporary exhibition spaces. The Holocaust History Museum is only one part of the enormous Yad Vashem complex which is a large tract of land which contains a number of large memorials to various aspects of the Holocaust as well as an education and research centres and an astoundingly poor cafe. I had heard the building and museum were impressive but a museum addressing the Holocaust (Shoah) is never going to be easy, nor should it be. It was with some trepidation that I braced myself for this visit.
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