Holocaust Museum Experience

My trip to the Museum of the Jewish Heritage was interesting. I enjoyed it very much. This museum provided a mesmerizing approach to the Holocaust. I never knew much about the Holocaust or Jews, but what I did learn that the Museum was constructed to teach us about the lives of the Jews through the Holocaust. The Museum has paid its respect to those individuals who passed on by praising their lives and the treaties that they clenched to, by looking back at their accomplishments and confidence. The new eras of Jews are taught how to identify and battle modern examples of criminal action and abuse. The Jews had a sad life during these hard times of sorrow, vicious treatment and discriminating justice. At the Museum, they had several core exhibits, which told stories of different events throughout

Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum was written by Edward T. Linenthal. This book was published by the Columbia University Press in New York. The book was copyrighted in 1995 and then once again in 2001. This book also has 336 pages.

The Holocaust is one of the most gruesome and horrific expressions of human intolerance. The Nazi’s considered Jews, Roma, homosexuals, Christians who tried to help hide the Jews, and any person with a physical or developmental disability to be a inferior, they were referred to as ‘the other.’ Holocaust Museums serve not only as educational institutions, but also a source for research, that have dedicated their facilities to preserving the experiences of people who were victimized by the Nazi’s and their followers during the Holocaust. Holocaust Museums can be a way to learn about what the victims went through, prove Holocaust denial wrong, and learn about the history of the intolerance of the Jewish population. Besides the exhibits, the Museum’s

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust, located adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The Museum provides documentation, study, and interpretation of the Holocaust history.

The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus is about the horrendous events such as hate crimes that were happening during World War II. The definition of Holocaust from the museum website perspective is “The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews and five million other persons by the Nazi regime and its collaborators” (Holocaust and Survivor Defined.). “The term Holocaust comes from the Greek words of “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burn) which was used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an alter” (History.com). The museum has been around for more than 25 years, in Farmington Hills and has been acknowledged by the Wall Street Journal. The museum does not only reflect on the evil, but also the strength and the courage of the victims affected in this genocide. The purpose of the Holocaust museum is to remember those who have passed away and survived, as well as, to teach and inform others about the events. There were many exhibits to choose from such as, the Jewish heritage, the descent into Nazism and the postwar period. The exhibit I will be focusing on is called, The Camp System.

Not only is the Holocaust a large part of history in general, but it is a haunting part of Jewish history. Many Jewish survivors have tried to shut out their past, but it is almost impossible for them to forget something that has impacted their lives in such a huge way. One survivor, Zelda Fuksman, said, “Teaching about the Holocaust is not just our job, it's our inheritance. It's our history. We can't rewrite it and we can't forget it” (“Next Generations Holocaust…”). It is people like Zelda who help the public and Jewish community remember and learn about an important part

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.

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." (John Fitzgerald Kennedy) A memorial is not all about how fancy and big the stature is. Presidents and other famous people are not the only ones who do or should get monuments of them. In the three sources, Excerpt from Downes, Lawrence. "Waiting for Crazy Horse." New York Times, Excerpt from Musser, Christine. "Preserving Memory: National Holocaust Memorial Museum Controversy," and Excerpt from "Obscure Monument to Lobsterdom: Washington, DC." RoadsideAmerica.com, you see that not everything has to be famous, but not everything should become a monument either. "National Holocaust Memorial Museum Controversy," the Holocaust is an event that is and always should be a crucial event in history. Monuments have a place and a reason for building Usually museums or their own building like the Lincoln Memorial.

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

There were about 500,000 living survivors of the Holocaust in 2014. It is vital for students to be taught about the Holocaust in school. The article, "combating" shows that the students need to be aware that the event did in fact happen. The article "Genocide" shows students what happens when hate against one group or culture becomes too much. Elie Wiesel's Night shows students an eyewitness account of how much violence, brutality, and abuse to the prisoners had to go through in the Holocaust. Though some people are against the subject of the Holocaust because it is too graphic or mature for the students, it is important that students learn from a trusted adult instead of letting other students try to teach it to themselves. The students should learn about the subject of the Holocaust in school because it teaches the importance of equality, about the events occurrence, and teaching about the dangers of discrimination and abuse.

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.

Berenbaum, Michael, and Arnold Kramer. The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, D.C: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2006.

The Museum of Tolerance in LA educates people about The Holocaust with exhibits like the stories of people that were Jewish.

The official name of the memorial is called The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. This name gives a clear stance on the history of the Holocaust and portrays the responsibility that the German government has taken for their wrongdoings against the Jewish people. Significantly, it was the first German government sponsored memorial, which further explains its importance. This reflects postconvetionalism in the way that the German government has acknowledged the truth of their role during the war. The truth is also explanatory in the name of the memorial; however, the physical structure does not display certainty of it being a memorial of the six million murdered Jews. The structure is beyond the binary and fixedness of other Holocaust

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.