Connection and Despair

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The Walls of Yad Vashem are purposefully made to resemble a prison. Where the city that surrounds it is colorful and cultured, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center is drab, stark and institutional. The building is a prism-shaped concrete structure that juts sharply outward from the Jerusalem mountainside.

We line up quietly outside of the somber monolith. We’re all exhausted, but in our exhaustion we look more like…