Dream Trip 2009

Great Travel Moment

This was a very moving moment. At the train platform at Auschwitz, a group of people draped in the Israeli flag spent some time here, on the tracks. They sang, embraced each other, cried, and left behind the candles. To be at Auschwitz is overwhelming and you don't know quite what to feel or do to take it all in. Watching people mourn their loved ones made it much more of a tangible experience. While Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel's stories popped in my head, the survivors and their pain, along with the clear connection to Israel's fight, was so vivid on that hot July morning.