Caring for strangers.

摘要

In 2012 I visited theYadVashem in Jerusalem, the Holocaust Museum. I was in Israel as part of a group of businessmen, government officials, and university administrators to learn about Israeli healthcare innovations. Although we started the trip as strangers, our mutual experience of the museum brought a deep sense of shared humanity. We self-identified as Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and Christian with family ties to Holland, Poland, the Ukraine, Brazil, Israel, and Afghanistan. Our guide, who I'll call "Miri," led us sensitively through a tour that exposed the depths of human cruelty. We listened carefully, willing ourselves to bear witness to the atrocities of that period.The question punctuating every story was, why did so many stand by silently, allowing this to happen?