Yad Vashem

you know me like like it's here like it you know to confront the truth means breaking families You know means breaking social ties and those social ties should be broken and dare I say those families should be broken Because if it was built on the oppression of other people and it was built on a lie to begin with then then then how real was it you know, I am had a very memorable visit on my last day during my trip.

And it was to Yad Vashem, right? And it was extremely, extremely moving.

And this was after I had seen everything.

And so it was really haunting to see how well-documented the oppression was, how well-documented the Holocaust was, how emotionally moving and affecting it was.

Nu, aber du, man kann, äh, gehen a Sach, a Sache, äh, Kommandanten erkennen.

Jetzt wissen auch jetzt gehe ich, habe Ungarn so oft treten ein paar Mal, aber vielleicht zweimal die Woche in Yad Vashem.

In du, du, du Zeit, da kommen, kommen auf Yad Vashem, kommen ja ein von Militär, kommen dort zu zeigen.

Und ich fuhr auf Yad Vashem und ich rede.

Mhm.

Ich erzähl.

Ich habe gesagt, ich fühle noch deutschn doch.

Und, äh, also ich führe in, er sagt mir, im Militär gleich, im Militär nicht nur in Yad Vashem.

You know, there's a moment that changes you.

And for me, it happened at Yad Vashem.

Room after room, face after face, story after story of a world that watched evil rise and told itself it could never happen again.

And I think most of us standing in a place like that have the same thought, never again.

It's a thousand small decisions to use what God gave you instead of hiding it somewhere because it's inconvenient or unpopular or costly.

For our guest, that gift has been a legal mind and a public platform used for decades to say the uncomfortable thing while others in his own party stayed quiet.

You know, we started this episode at Yad Vashem with the sobering truth that most people don't fight until it's too late.

And we end with an answer to that problem.

Like in so many recountings of history, there are various versions.

The memorial stones that Mark was referring to are replicas of those that were in Yad Vashem.

Yad Vashem has subsequently removed them.

What's the story and why was there a need for a second monument on the other side of the cathedral, right by where we're sitting now?

It was removed because the descendants of Macedonian Jews and Greek Jews actually opposed plate of the name of Boris the Tsar because they blamed him of deportation of their relatives because he was the actual ruler of those territories in this time.

You see those letters.

It's so sad when you go into the Holocaust Museum in D.C. or Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

The actual handwriting in the typed letters by the president's in the leaders of our nation and how they turned away the jewish people but god use that what man meant for evil god meant for good and so many fled to israel they began to form there and grow and and with a hundred million arabs around them at a time at a time they were supernaturally able to defeat and recapture the land that god had promised and given to them and so god predicted this would happen even at the birth of the Messiah.

The angel Gabriel came to Mary.

And this urn is the largest thrown ceramic vase in the world.

It's at Yad Vashem, and it's called Isaac's Jar.

And it depicts Isaac in a very stylized way, with his head bowed in greek.

Why is Peter, who has Jewish ancestry, who's related to William E. Blackstone, who you know, is one of our and inspirations in our work.

I said it and it wasn't six million.

And that's confirmed by Yad Vashem.

But anyway, go ahead.

Yeah.

Kundera, after all, lived in a small country that disappeared.

The last time I was in Israel, the tour group walked through the big Holocaust Memorial Museum there, Yad Vashem.

It's an hours-long trudging walk.

As we were exiting, walking out, I'll never forget this.