Shaarei Bina Informative Speech

Firstly, When I used to live in New York, my school didn't commemorate the Holocaust and I didn't know much about it. Therefore I am very happy that Shaarei Bina welcomes and commemorates the Holocaust. On top of that, I am very happy that Shaarei Bina, took us to this very memorial, heartbreaking trip. Although the atmosphere was very dismal, it is very important to learn about such a history shocking event. The video that the Holocaust Memorial offered us was very sad, informative and showed a little aspect of how the outside world or the Nazis abhorred the Jews. I, amongst other peers of mine, were brought to tears by how the Jews were suffering in the Holocaust. The video, in a nutshell, pointed out, as I said before, the suffering that
There was one sculpture in particular that touched my heart. That was in the center of the memorial, where a hand that in my opinion portrayed G-d and many sad, hollow looking people that symbolized the Jews struggling to reach that hand. Although some of those people couldn't get on that hand, due to lack of room, they still had hope and the will to live. Another sculpture that was very heartbreaking, was that of a mother protecting her children from the Nazis. On top of that sculpture was one of Anne Frank’s quotes saying “....then in spite of everything, I still believe that people are at good at heart”, meaning that there was still hope that humans are good at heart, even the Nazis. Then at the conclusion of the tour, there was another image of that same mother and her children dead, on top of that images there was another quote written by Anne Frank that said “ ideals, dreams and cherished hope rise within us only to meet the horrible truth, and be shattered”, meaning that later in the war Anne Frank amongst others- slowly lost their hope. These three sculptures really gave us a good image of how dreadful the Holocaust really