The Forest: Day 5

The most emotional part of this trip for me was the forest...The forest was a children's grave. The Nazis took hundreds of innocent kids from their parents and killed them one after another...

All those kids that were murdered will never be able able to grow up and live their lives like we can...

These kids were prisoners and they died prisoners...

We put the toys down on their graves for those children who never got to play...

After seeing and hearing about such a horrific event in history you have to be grateful for being free ... to be able to grow up with a Jewish family... to proudly call yourself Jewish and grow up to get married and have kids. Things that those kids will never be able to do, all because they were Jewish. 

Submitted by:

Loren Ben-Shushan,

Class of 2016