We thought we would, but we didn’t
Any Jewish trip to Poland consists of a trip to the Concentration Camps. The worst of which is Birkenau, a unimaginably humongous death camp where 1 million Jewish people were murdered. As the trip was approaching, I think we were all worried and anxious that it would be too intense, that we would cry, that we would be depressed. We didn’t cry and we weren’t depressed.
This time in history is undoubtedly the most horrific period in Jewish history and in all humanity. We saw and we felt what it was like to be helpless, weak, beaten and humiliated. When walking through the barricks, we found shards of human bones which is common in these camps.
Why did we not cry? I believe its because we didn’t feel weak.We draped ourselves with the Magen David and we knew that we were strong. We didn’t cry because there was nothing to cry for anymore. Am Yisroel Chai.
-Erran Kagan
May 19, 2019
Journey to Poland 