“Sir when you-Jews saw how your fathers, brothers, sisters, neighbors were taken to police stations or some where else, why didn't u escape? Didn't u realize that the horror was waiting for us?”
His answer was:
“Then we didn't realize such things, we didn't realize that mankind could do such thing”
This answer was enough for me.
After meeting every group went to bus that were waiting for us. We went back to Hotel. After having supper groups joined together to draft a declaration.
By the way I want to say something about our guide Yiftach. As I know he is nearly 26 or 28. He was really nice, smart and cool guy. He had ability to control us, u could see us laughing, joking and for a moment the atmosphere could change in the group. Every time when we were in the bus we were playing different games, but the base was same. The games purpose was to whether group members were together or not. May be it doesn't seem to be interesting for you, but in that atmosphere they were funny and as he said “cool”. Actually things were divided into “cool” and not “cool things”. But we always tried to be cool guys, because our group was the coolest one. Everything was so nice, so interesting that I'm sure I'll never forget time I spent in Jerusalem.
The next day we were in Art museum, Synagogue and Learning centre. The most interesting moment was waiting for us, it was meting with president of Israel State Shimon Peres. He made speech, he answered to several questions. And we took photo together. He showed how he believed to youngsters with his speech with following words:
“You can do more than you think, than your parents think, than your teachers think to build a better future for yourself for and other young people”.
During that day we met Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and we were in the place that was built in remembrance of children perished during Holocaust. It's hard to understand how mankind could kill just a child so savagely. I can't accept such things; I even refuse to understand it. To kill just a child for being from not “right race”. Allah will punish them.
Then the concluding session was waiting for us. The declaration was handed to Avner Shalev. Every ambassador of each country was given books about Holocaust. And during this session our guide-Yiftach approached to me and asked whether I was agree to speak with reporter of BBC for Latin America. I didn't know what to say, of course I was agreed, I was surprised and at the time I was astonished. I thanked him several times for choosing me. I introduce myself to the reporter and then she gave me several questions, about my country about myself. And she was surprised when I said to her that I was Muslim. She asked me about terror acts that happen in Iraq or in other Muslim countries. My answer was: “I'm fed up of that, I feel sick when I hear such thing. Why do we divide each other to Shia or Sunni? But it's stupid. In my country there're different national minorities, and I have relatives among them. We live happy and friendly life together”. If we divide people among us for their religion, belief, appearance and another thing, we will never be able to live peaceful life.
After the last session we were taken back to the hotel and we asked to pack our luggage and to be ready to the last tour during the congress. As the weather was getting bad and everybody was expecting snow. We packed our bags and got in our busses and started off towards Tel-Aviv.
While we in the bus, the driver tuned to different radio stations and then we stopped in one. I liked the music and asked our guide and turn it up. Oh my god, you can't imagine the atmosphere there inside of the bus. Some of the guys were thinking, some joking, laughing, some singing. It's hard to explain such feeling. Actually during the tour I listened the music I had never listened, really, but in such atmosphere such music seemed to be the music I loved. Funny girl from Poland-Zuza was sitting next to me; I spoke to her as we had known each other for years. I wish to be in such atmosphere again, I wish everyone to feel it.
We arrived to the Hotel in Tel-Aviv, where accommodations were booked before our coming. After an hour or more we were in the restaurant, we were having our last supper together. After supper groups were together again. It was our last gathering during the congress (I hope we'll meet again). Some thanked Yiftach and staff of Yad Vashem, some just listened in silence. After gathering some guys spoke to each other, some took pictures and some went to upstairs to pack their luggage.
I left Tel-Aviv early in the morning on 30th January. Those 4 days I spent in Israel were amazing, unforgettable. During these days I gained friends from Poland, Finland, Ukraine, Greece, Turkey, Germany and so on, I gained valuable knowledge about Holocaust, I visited different beautiful places, and I tasted different meals. I'll get in contact with guys I met there and specially with our cool guide Yifatch. While I have been coming to the end of my story, I remembered that I missed a lot of stories, but I'm sure of one thing that these days left in my mind unexhausted trace.
