After the huge task of building a house, it has been a nice change to immerse ourselves in some touring, history and culture. We began the day at S-21. S-21 was a school, which was converted into a jail that was used to hold and torture the educated and wealthy people of Cambodia during the Pol Pot regime. This experience was quite solemn and eye opening as before this, we hadn't heard of or known about this terrible time in Cambodia. We, as Jewish people, can relate to this as our ancestors went through a similar thing as they went through a genocide of their own. After learning about the prison we went to the killing fields where tens of thousands of Cambodians were brutally murdered during the regime. This killing field was traumatic as we saw mass graves and skulls of innocent people scattered before our eyes. We even saw some remaining human bones sticking out of the graves.
Tonight we are going to the local Chabad house were we will spend Shabbat and have meat for the first time in just under a week! Really looking forward to to that :)
Memorial tower, filled with the skulls of murdered Cambodian people.
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