Czech MaTE

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Went to a concentration camp today. It snowed the whole time and the sky was stealy grey. THere's a duo of professors camped out at this hostel here in PRague that arw writing a book on the Holocaust and one of them agreed to chaperone a few of us to this concentration camp called Terazin. It was good to have him, Paul, with us because I would have missed many of the subelties and backround that there was to learn about what happened there. I'm not going to get into any details but it was a heavy day and I'm glad to be back in my warm room with a toilet and shower near by. I think I said someting to the same effect when I was in Cambodia visiting some of the killing fields there, but I feel the same way: that I'ts importanat to bare whitness to events like these so I can be more tolerant to other people in the future. I'm still in a bit of a funk over the day and I think I feel more JEwish today than anytime I've ever lit the candels or been to a service. It seem entirely possible that me or my family would have had our names written on those walls had we been born someplace else a few years ago. Oi. I'm off tomorrow to the south and I'll be keepin on keepin on. Till then.

love dave