Madison Anderson- 1st Reflection

I have definitely been challenged on the human dignity tour with writing about the events of the Holocaust and telling the stories of the Jewish community. There is a profound homage that you want to pay to the individuals subjected to persecution, as well as finding the right words to capture the sights in a vivid and empathetic way. No amount of preparation gives you a mindset that it’s ready for the various concentration and death camps in Germany and Poland. I think continually writing and etching the Holocaust into history is vital for society to contemplate and remember an event where human value and dignity were jettisoned and lives were innocently lost. I promised myself not to walk into this experience expecting an uncomfortable emotional response, but to walk into it with humanity and experience new and raw emotions.