Never Again

One of the top memorials to visit in Washington, D.C., is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Tickets are booked months in advance, but a few are given out each morning to the general public. We were extremely fortunate to be able to obtain tickets for a visit today.

As a typical tourist, I began to take photos. The memorial allows non-flash photography, and so many of the images presented with names and dates were powerful enough to demand to be remembered. We saw photos of the safe and productive lives of European Jews prior to the 1930's. We saw people laughing, getting married, having children, and working. We saw old, young, and middle-aged men and women have their entire world turned upside down. We saw where they lived and where they died.

I could not continue.

The story hits you like a hammer. There are no words to describe nor pictures to provide that could possibly do justice to this presentation of an horrific chapter in human events. I can only leave you with a few photos and the wish that if you ever possibly can make the the visit to this Memorial, please do. It is the event of a lifetime.