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We Marched with the Living (1)
by Meital Hadad, Amal Aleph Comprehensive School, Ramla
My trip to Poland was full of many events, feelings, tears, all mixed together. During this trip, I felt and understood what it mean to be Jewish, what it meant to be proud of my flag.
At the mountain of ashes in Maidanek, I felt a shiver in my body when I saw the pieces of bones. Standing there, I heard the cries of children, mothers, fathers, sisters, uncles, grandfathers - all Jewish. Standing there, I was so afraid.
In front of 17,000 memorials for 17,000 communities in Treblinka, I stood there, and walked among them, and the memorials didn't end. I walked and I looked at the 17,000 memorials and I thought and imagined the people behind the communities, the people were shouting - and they were destroyed. I couldn't do anything. They shouted back at me again and again and the tears fall. And the tears wouldn't stop falling....
This article previously appeared in The Amal Sun - The Student Newspaper of Amal Aleph Ramla, May 1998.
For additional student writing on
this subject, see A
Journey to Poland, Back from Poland,
We Marched with the
Living (2), and Poland.
For other related materials, check out the
following Amalnet sites (in Hebrew):
The Holocaust, Holocaust
Literature, and Journey
to Poland
© 1998, Amal Pedagogical Technological Center
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