Holocaust Museum Experience

The Museum of Tolerance of Los Angles educates people about the event that occurred during the Holocaust and people that helped us have a better word.

The article, At the Holocaust Museum, by David Oliver Relin is about visiting the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. The Holocaust Museum can have a big impact on the reader. Authors do that by using objectivity, which is a fact. However, some may use subjectivity, which is an opinion. Some articles may be more objective, while others may be more subjective. This article is mostly objective with a little subjectivity to get the authors point of view across.

I was fortunate to participate in a field trip with the Miami-Dade County School of Education to the Holocaust Museum, located at 1933-1945 Meridian Ave, Miami Beach Florida. At the museum, every statue and picture displayed are constructed to educate the public on the history of the horrifying events that happened not too long ago. Even the address of the museum is the recognition of such an unforgettable and tragic event, the Holocaust, 1933 through 1945. At the entrance of the museum stands a statue of a mother figure draped in a blanket looking somber as she embraces her children at her side. As I looked at their angelic like faces I already started to sense the hopelessness and pain these poor souls must have endured. Just a few feet from this statue towers the grand memorial of a giant dark and light green metal arm

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-13015210 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Introduction to the Holocaust.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143.

“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it”, said Edmund Burke. The holocaust was one of the most horrific events to take place in history. A Nazi, by the name of Adolf Hitler, had millions of Jews murdered. Today students are not taught about the holocaust like they should be. This is a topic that is kind of brushed under the rug, and some even question if the holocaust even happened. There were genocides that took place all over the world, but this was the largest of them all. It is so easy to fall into the same trap as our past relatives; it is up to us to make sure that history doesn’t repeat ourselves. It is extremely important that we never forget this horrendous event, and it’s critical that our youth hear the stories of the people who lived it. Yad Vashem is a memorial to all of the individuals who had to endure the holocaust. Every year on holocaust remembrance day they have a ceremony at Yad Vashem. They do this to keep the memory of the holocaust alive, because if we forget what happened we may be doom to

The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles educates people about how people were treated during the Holocaust and what prisoners did in the camps, resulting in the deaths of many. One of the many life-changing exhibits that may open they eyes of many was the Anne Frank exhibit. It features the life of an extraordinary young Jewish writer who lived in a Nazi-occupied country in her early teenage years . Anne is one of the most well-known victims of the Holocaust because of the diary that she kept, while she and her family were in hiding. My favorite quote by Anne Frank is, "In spite of everything, I still believe people are good at heart," because it shows that even through the darkest of times, one can still forgive and have hope for a brighter

I have been to the Holocaust Museum a number of times for various different events and occasions. I know many people who work there and I even know some survivors. The Holocaust though, has always been just a hard thing to grasp in my mind. Even with all of my connections to the Holocaust I still feel so disconnected with the events that transpired. I think this was my 6th time visiting the permanent exhibit, but this was the first time I did it without a tour. I looked at the pieces of the museum that particularly interested me, not what the tour guide showed me. I thought about the questions of this assignment and was having a difficult time really coming up with an answer. I now realize that the fact I don’t have an answer is my answer.

To date they have collected over 30 billion paper clips from almost every continent! They have also received over 30 thousand + letters etc. from people. Since they were sent so many paper clips and letters, they have a authentic german rail car (the one the Jews would have been transported in) and have glass cases filled with paper clips and the letters. The full memorial was finished in the year of 2001 and is now part of the Children's Holocaust

Source E shows an excellent example of how important location is when putting a memorial up for display, by explaining the reactions that occurred .The source explains the controversy that had started over the thought of Holocaust museum opening in a mall in Washington, D.C.. Not only is this idea confusing because of how little to noting our country had to do with, but it's offensive to people you have a connection with this awful historical event. This notion of opening the in a mall in Washington, D.C. when the event hadn't even happened in our country is somewhat disrespectful to those who have any ties to the Holocaust. Even though said idea would be a nice way in showing respect to those who had their life taken during this time, a mall in D.C. would not satisfy the people. In this case of opening a Holocaust museum, (source E), location was very important and proves how necessary it is to make sure location is a main

I was maybe in the seventh grade when our class had traveled all the way to El Paso to visit the Holocaust Museum. I remember as the bus pulled up to the building, I could see the sign. It closely resembled a fire, but as we drove close, I immediately recognized what appeared to be mother and father holding a baby. Sure enough, when we finally got inside, our tour guide asked us if we see anything else besides the somewhat memorial fire. We of course said a family, but then she asked if there was anything else on the logo that was plastered on the front desk.. Being as clueless as I was back then, this threw me off guard. It wasn’t until another student said that there writing at the top of the fire when I completely face-palmed. “Oh.” was I said, but in the inside it was more like “How could you miss that?” She then informed us that the writing can be roughly translated as “As humanly”.

Thank you for showing us around the Holocaust Museum. When showing us around the museum you explained and answer the question very thoroughly and without any hesitation. One specific moment i remembered is when you showed us the carts that the jews had to sleep in and barely ten people could fit but back then 25 to 40 people had to stay in those, that's what really stuck with me after the tour. The background information we had opened our minds to what you were saying and added a whole lot more. The Museum trip was a hoot and very interesting and that was too you volunteering your time to come and teach me and class mate about the Holocaust so if someday in the future to never let what happen then happen again.

A secondary source that was used for this investigation was the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website. The museum’s Council includes many representatives, one of whom is Elie Wiesel, one of the world’s most famous Holocaust survivors. Obviously, the Museum’s information is valued since it has both historical information and valuable first-hand accounts. Furthermore, a value to this information is that it was initiated in 1976. Creating a museum decades after the incident allows the creators to correctly piece the Holocaust with its’ origins and its’ results. A limitation to this source, however, is that it is established in the United States, hence the museum is limited to the American perspective. As America fought against Germany in the war, information from America comprehensibly views Germany’s actions negatively.

The trip to Washington DC was an amazing experience. Being my first time at Washington, I found it very interesting. I really liked the museums and the all the memorial we went to, but my favorite was the Holocaust museum. The Holocaust in is important history that everyone should know about because it involved millions of people. Because of the Holocaust, millions of blameless people who were Jewish, died. The Museum is divided into three parts which are the Nazi Assault, Final Solution, and the Last Chapter. Each floor explain the steps by which a group becomes the target of discrimination, persecution and violence.

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