Case Study: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

3. I stood in the boxcar for a couple of seconds, and I looked at the scuffed floor, where the paint was worn down to the wood, and I could really picture all of those people being crammed into the boxcar and sent to their deaths.

There is a lot that goes into the making of a memorial. A lot to be considered before they can start thinking about what the memorial is going to be; a huge bronze statue or a plaque with their name on it, and where. Controversy is also something that needs to be thought about in deciding if it would be a good idea or not to have a memorial of someone or something. Those factors should depend on the space they are working on, as well as where, and the fact that sometimes it’s best to stay away from the subject as the public may not agree.

The New England Holocaust Memorial, located in Boston, is there to remember all the people killed and affected during the Holocaust. This August, a teen from Malden destroyed the memorial for no particular reason, only for a hate of Jews. One of the police chiefs said “Everyone

The Dallas Holocaust Museum is the the heart of downtown Dallas and is tucked away on a busy downtown street. This was my first time visiting the museum and it was an amazing experience. The tour started off with a pillar representation of the number of Jews killed during the twelve-year time period known as the Holocaust. I was unaware of the fact that eighty-percent of the Jews killed during the Holocaust happened in the year 1942. The tour opened my eyes to more of the personal accounts instead of just the vast number of deaths during this genocide.

George Santayana was once quoted saying, “The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again.” The Holocaust was tragic moment in history. If we don’t learn from the history of the Holocaust we could repeat it and that would be another mistake. The Holocaust museum was created as a remembrance.

Some for profit prisons have also appeared that are being paid to house inmates for a certain fee daily, which is much cheaper than the American Government and taxpayers footing the bill. The argument stands that these prisoners cannot be released into society as they cannot be rehabilitated nor are they fully learning to function outside of the walls because this is how the correctional system works; in order for there to be prison officials, there needs to be prisoners (Kroll, 1984).

The year is 1998, not only was I, Carleigh Irgens, born August 21 in Miles City, Montana but some other big and exciting things happened! Three of the most important events were, The Holocaust History Project was founded, John Gacy; The Clown Killer was convicted of killing young boys and even the death of Paul McCartney’s wife, Linda McCartney.

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website, a total of about nine million Jews lived in the countries that would soon be occupied by Germany during World War II. The largest Jew population in 1933 was in Eastern Europe. Poland had the largest population in that region. It had about 3,000,000 Jews. In prewar Central Europe, the largest Jewish community was in Germany. There was about 525,000 members. The largest Jewish community in Western Europe was in Great Britain. Great Britain had about 300,000 Jews. There was also significant Jewish communities in Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia is located in Southern Europe. (www.ushmm.org)

First let’s inform ourselves about how costly it is to maintain a prisoner. The cost can range between $31,28

For many years, the government has been using tax papers dollars to fund the lives of criminals locked up in a jail cell or prisons. According to the ALEC (America Legislative Exchange Council), on average per inmate it takes approximately $17,973 to house them. (ALEC American Legislative Exchange Council. N.p., n.d. Web. 06

Analyzing objective and subjective text in At the Holocaust Museum By David Oliver Relin. At the Holocaust Museum, the article is more of a balanced piece of writing, containing both objective and subjective text. Objective text is personal feelings/opinions in considering and representing facts in a text, Subjective text is based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions in a text. Most non-fiction texts are objective pieces but At the Holocaust Museum was balanced. Objective and subjective text in At the Holocaust Museum By David Oliver Relin.

My artifact is a model of one of the several concentration camps from the Holocaust, beginning from 1933, and ending in in the vanquishment of Germany, in 1945. Believe it or not there are numerous theorists out there who are certain that the Holocaust was a hoax. Conspiracy theories claim that the Nazis never murdered over 6 million Jews during World War II but claims of the Holocaust was conspired by the Jews to advance their own intrigues and to justify the engenderment of Israel. The deniers claim that any deaths which occurred in concentration camps emanated from starvation or disease and not because of Nazi policy to extirpate the Jews.

Memorialization of any sort can be a tedious process, but those regarding Holocaust remembrance were particularly challenging given the surrounding social and political controversies that ensued. This is primarily seen through the issue of representation, which consistently played a key role in the creation of both the Holocaust museum in Washington D.C., and the Dachau concentration camp memorial. While the Dachau memorial’s conception stages, the designers were contemplating which victim groups to include. For instance, the mayor of Dachau stated, “Please do not make the mistake of thinking that only heroes died in Dachau. Many inmates were…there because they illegally opposed the regime of the day….You have to remember there were many criminals and homosexuals in Dachau. Do we want a memorial to such people?” (Harold Maruse, “Dachau,” 151). With this quote, the mayor implies that the memorial will only be dedicated to those he deems worthy of representation. Likewise, the White House officials orchestrating the American Holocaust Museum also debated a similar notion regarding the inclusion of ethic victim groups other than the Jews. However, Wiesel and other Holocaust survivors believed that commemorating non-Jews was an “…obscene incursion into the boundaries of Holocaust memory by those whose country-men had persecuted survivors” (Edward T. Linenthal, Preserving Memory, 53). For this reason, and in order to avoid the generation of false memories, these groups

This information source has a higher degree of credibility because of the author’s position within the field of corrections. The information confirms that a gap exists and misguides the actual cost of prison privatization (Miller, 2013).