Today started with a tour of the Holocaust Museum. Photos were not allowed in the museum but the exhibitions were amazing. The museum is architecturally spectacular and as you enter you are surrounded by towering sloping concrete walls. The museum is then a long corridor with rooms going off to either side where the before, during and after of the Holocaust is explored, firstly in years and then thematically. The sloping concrete walls get closer as 1941 is reached. This was a deliberate decision in the design of the museum to create a claustrophobic atmosphere, indicative of the rising tensions and dangers at that time in history for the persecuted. The corridor begins to widen after the final room dealing with liberation. As you enter the museum and look to the very end of the corridor you can only see light and sky through a full glass wall and doors. Metaphorically indicative of the light at the end of the tunnel. Hope can come from great despair. The following photo is that view. It is looking over Jerusalem and it is symbolic of the fact that the Jewish people now have a land to call home, Israel.
The next couple of photos are of my classroom and the views directly from that classroom.
The food here is great!
After dinner tonight we went on a night tour of the Western Wall Tunnels. There is an underground old city beneath the current ground in Jerusalem and we explored this area. The second photo are notes in the cracks of the Western Wall. It is a tradition to write prayers to God and place them in the Wall, which is one of the holiest Jewish sites in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem by night.
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