Aziz Abu Sarra

And so that division is normal.

And when I grew up, obviously, in our school, I can tell you, we learned more about Europe than we learned about our own history.

We learned about more medieval and, what do you call it, the nation states in Europe.

But I knew nothing about the Holocaust because I think for many Palestinians, learning about the Holocaust is a scary thing.

If you learn about the Holocaust, does that justify the Nakba?

Does that us accepting what Israel has done to us in 1948?

And so I didn't learn about it.

My family never learned about it.

And I took a decision to go to Yad Vashem, to the memorial, the Holocaust memorial, when I went to study Hebrew, because I felt I was actually, my teacher helped me into that decision, said, if you want to

really learn what Israelis think and their way of thinking and the trauma that every Israeli has, you have to go to the Holocaust Memorial.

And so I did that, and I was the only Palestinian I knew at the time who did it.

This is back in the late 90s.

And it was scary.

I got there, and I remember seeing soldiers

because every Israeli soldiers go to the Holocaust Memorial.

And I almost turned around.

I was like, they don't want me to be here.

They're probably looking at me.

They probably know I'm Arab and they're probably judging me.

But eventually I decided to do it.