Sad part of the day
We just finished the Corrie Ten Boom museum tour. For those that do not know the Ten Boom family were Christians who hid Jews from the Nazis. The nazis of course hunted Jews from all over Europe but Holland suffered the largest percentage of Jews caught based on population The Ten Booms saved as many as 800 from sure death
Watch the movie “The Hiding Place” on Amazon Prime to see what the Ten Boom family endured.
Holland before WW2 welcomed immigrant Jews. Then as hate from the nazis came during the war these people, who lived in Holland their whole lives, were suddenly hunted and grabbed and sent to concentration camps to be murdered.
Imagine masked soldiers turning up in your city and grabbing human beings because they have a certain faith or racial profile. Then those people, many of them your friends, are wisked away to places they don’t know, separated from their families and houses – their lives ruined. Huh… would that ever happen again? All because of hate justified as something else?
The gold squares in the picture below are called stumbling stones. They mark the spot where nazis showed up and abducted people taking them away to be murdered. These markers are a tragic reminder of what happens when hate takes over a population and turns people against one another. Here in this case 4 people, probably long time residents and friends of the whole neighborhood, suddenly lost their lives.
Happy part of the day
Teylers Museum
A pretty cool museum and the oldest in Holland. They had just about everything and this month a special exhibition of Michelangelo.
French fries are huge here. All these people are waiting to buy fries from this small fries store. Tomorrow we will also!
