Holocaust Film Analysis

A majority of the exhibit was technology based or was made up entirely of dioramas. It was very interesting to discover that the museum uses a mediated based approach to inform their audience of the events that happened during the time of the Holocaust. To heighten the experience, the museum hands out cards with pictures of Jewish people who were affected by the Holocaust. At the end of the tour, there is a scanner that will reveal the fate of the person on your card. I received Peter Freistadt. Peter Freistadt was born on October 13, 1931, in Bratislavia, Czechoslovakia. With the arrival of anti-Semitic laws in the 1940s, him and his family had to wear the Star of David on their sleeves and a brand. The star branded them for all to see that they are jewish. They were required to hire a non-Jewish man to overlook their family owned business. They were forced to leave their home. Peter Freistadt was one of the lucky few to escape the ghettos, and the horrors that followed. There was one section within the exhibit called "The Hall of Testimony". This is where you can hear the stories of Holocaust survivors. This provides live testimony of the events from the period and semi fills the void that was caused due to the previous lack of artifacts. The Museum honors the survivors in a permanent exhibit titled “Witness to Truth”. The

The Holocaust was a very important tragic event that occurred in history. Many of the stories belonging to the jews were lost and never told, many of the innocent souls were unknown, but never forgotten. For years, people have tried to dig up these stories and explain it to many generations, because the Holocaust wasn't something to be forgotten about or left unknown. Sometimes it is hard to understand the truth without a visual. Movies such as Schindler’s list or books such as Maus try to give a message as well as a visual to better understand the content.

I was truly devastated by the stories that both Henry and Henia Bryer presented. I am able to gain appreciation for the things that appear insignificant in my life. As I picture myself in the shoes of Henry and Henia, I gain a sense of hatred towards the Germans. The images of the pile of naked, bony, and dead bodies within both videos truly impacted me. As I observed these images, I saw a glimpse of the horrendous life that the Jews had while living in the concentration camps.

Elie Wiesel shows a lot of courage going back to the place that brought him so much pain. I was really surprised Wiesel would go back to all the bad memories. I do not know him but those memories probably made him the person he was. At Auschwitz was where his mother, father, and sisters all died so he must be reminded of the lose of his family. I am quite glad that this video was made because I did learn a lot. I never knew there was a prison inside a prison where they kept all the political Jews and the Nazis also tortured the political Jews there. I thought it was nice they put flowers outside of the building. I also never knew that the Nazis kept a lot of the articles of clothings they would take from the Jews before they killed them or

In this book, the author describes the long process it takes to create a national museum that will commemorate the Holocaust. He covers issues such as, the location of it, the design and construction aspects of the museum building. He informs readers about how they’ve tried to represent the Holocaust through the museum with sensitivity. I will use specific facts from this book to show that this museum was built with the help of many and required a lot of thought into it. I will show that this museum does in fact show sensitivity to an individual.

I feel extreme remorse for the Jews. I saw the concentration camp images , videos before hitler took over , and watched scenes of the people who survived the camps. I also took photos inside and outside the museum. For the most part what I got from this visit was that the Jews were killed in large numbers and treated poorly. After the visit I made a power point explaining what exactly we saw which were large mass killings aka (genocide). The stories I learned and images/videos I saw reminded me of the constant struggle we have in today's society. We as a nation need to stop injustice , unlawful , and prejudice hatred for one another. At the end of the day we are all human and deserve the right to be treated fairly wherever in this

The readings from these past weeks on on issues of race and cultural patrimony were too informative considering the Native American exhibits I have attended, my work in an anthropology museum, and anthropology classes I have taken. Somehow, Cooper’s “The Long Road to Repatriation” provided more context and weight to the historical atrocities against Native Americans than any of my other educational experiences. To be fair, I am not a scholar of Native history, but I am certainly not uninformed, and it should not take a scholar or be a native person to understand these issues. As Lonetree mentioned, the Holocaust Museum presents a difficult subject and forces the visitor to “confront inhumanity” (106). I think the impact of this information as an educational experience in a museum would have a huge impact on current social and political tensions.

You might be wondering, Who created the museum? The Holocaust was all started by none other than Adolf Hitler. He got the idea that all jews were the problem to society. Then eventually it lead to more than the jews getting killed.

The u.s. Holocaust memorial museum was dedicated in 1993. The museum’s permanent exhibit titled the holocaust is divided into three parts. “Nazi Assault,Final Solution, Last Chapter”. Upon entrance,visitors are given a card with the name of a real person who was persecuted by Nazis or their collaborators. They are guided on a path through a three level exhibit, which contains photos, artifacts, and audio and video footage as well as large scale installations, including a polish railcar that was used to transport jews to concentration camps and visitors are allowed to board. Throughout the exhibit visitors are given a chance to learn about the fate of the individual on their assigned identity card.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is an institution to remind us about the ones who were murdered in the Holocaust. “Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust” is a nonfiction book written by Susan D. Bachrach and it informs the reader about the tragic incidents that occurred during the Holocaust. Honestly, I never fully understood what the Holocaust was and I chose to read this book to learn more about it.

When you first head down to the exhibit, you see a large map of the east coast on the wall. On this map shows the flights that were used by the terrorists in 9/11, you see their flight paths, and the time when they each crashed. Followed by that, you walked past pillars that showed pictures of people reacting to the planes crashing into the towers, you see the fear in their eyes, the horror. Each picture had its own emotion that was heavy to look at. After walking past

In the Anne Frank exhibit they show you different artifacts collected after the end of the Holocaust. Such as a copy of her diary, letters to and from her pen pal, baby pictures, etc. Besides the information and artifacts in front of you, there's a wall that catches your eye. It's a wall covered with bright articles of clothing, but as you continue walking the clothing gradually becomes darker. You can even see a few uniforms that prisoners wore in concentration camps. These articles of clothing represent the children murdered during World War 2. Topics like these, victims of genocide, are better learned about in person. Seeing a video or things that a child owned during a horrific time is more personal and powerful than reading about it in a

I think this was important when showing how people during the Holocaust were. They may have different reasoning as to why they took on certain roles or conducted themselves in such ways, but it showed that not everyone shared and supported the ideology behind Adolf Hitler. I think it was important to see that Lutz Heck remembered who he was before putting on the Nazi uniform.

The one thing that I wish they would implement to their museum to make it more interesting is to add more Holocaustic casted models. I got this idea by visiting the African American museum. And what set them apart was that they had a whole set of statue models on display to place a person in that mindset of being there. If the Holocaust museum would issue more life-like cast, then I think people will feel more engaged in the tour. In the African American museum, I remember the faces on the life-like models. The faces with looks of confusions, fear, and sometimes happiness. I think by adding this would bring a whole new element to the Holocaust museum. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the opportunity. I do plan on returning in the near future. Maybe not to that museum in particular, but a more official museum like the ones in Germany. I plan on traveling across the world one day, and visiting the Holocaust museum in Aw>>> is defiantly on my

Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, once said, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” Hitler used words to create hate and intolerance toward Jews. Because of this about 6 million European Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany during WWII. There was a lot of hate and intolerance during the Holocaust, but there were people who were able to fight against it. In different books and movies people overcame hate and intolerance during the Holocaust by giving bread to a Jew, hiding a Jew in their house, sneaking into a death camp to help a Jewish friend, and never giving up during hard times.