Essay on Holocaust Museum

In schools, teachers would teach children how to measure skull size, nose length and hair and eye color to determine if they were inferior or the true perfect Aryan. The perfect Aryan was someone with blonde hair, blue eyes and who was physically strong. In 1936, Hitler used the Summer Olympics to prove to the world that Aryan’s were the superior

3. The character in this narrative really comes alive in different parts of the story and the characters could be in our class room at the very moment.

3. Now, turn each of these experiences into a sentence. Don't forget to add details! (1 point)

On February 28th, 1944, the “Secret room” got its first and only time to actually hide the 7 Jews in the ten Boom household. It seemed, somehow,

My third quarter reading workshop project for the book The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom, portrays how the non-Jewish people safeguarded the Jewish people hide from the Nazi’s during World War II. The house is a modern-1900’s Netherlands home, Corrie and her family lived in one of these houses. The house has two “secret” rooms, which has entrances that aren’t obvious for an inspector. These “secret” rooms represent the places where non-Jewish people hid Jewish people from the Nazi’s. This can be seen in The Hiding Place. Corrie, Betsie, and their father are talking about ways to help the Jews. The people with the yellow star of David are the Jew’s and the stars illustrate the discrimination that the Nazi’s made towards the Jews. The people

A. When “visiting” the Lascaux cave I really started to understand just how difficult it must have been for the painters to do what they did. Not only were they in a deep, winding cave, they were painting and sculpting these amazing images. I also realized just how dedicated the artists must have been to work so hard.

3. It has become a burden because of the emotions it brought up to him. It made him into a sad person and realized possessions had made him ordinary.

The discussion on the voids/gaps within the Jewish museum is an interesting topic because most people would not think a lot of the symbolism behind them. Andrew Gross mentions that they “enact a scripted collapse of meaning, displacing history into the registers of architecture, personal experience and memory” (p.85). As I watched some of the visitors, I noticed most would peer into these voids and shrugged them off while walking away. These voids add to the story of the museum and to the Jewish history in Germany, by representing the missing part of this history. It also represents the disruption in the German

My initial response to the work was intrigue. Most of the other works in the room were set at eye level, and if they did reach to the floor your eyes were not drawn there first. I actually almost missed the work

2. Was the show worse than the film? Was the show bad than the film? Was the show worst than the film?

In the survivor’s exhibit, I got more of a sense of how inhumane the perpetrators were but in the SS guard’s exhibit it was as if it made me step back and realize these people were humans. In fact, I found in the perpetrator’s exhibit that they did not become these monstrous villains until after the training they were subjected to, to become guards with the Nazi organization at the concentration camp. It was brought to light that it was this socialization of the guards that at the very least amplified the possibility of brutality that the guards could inflict on the prisoners at Ravensbrücke. It is important that I can look at this juxtaposition of the perpetrator and survivor/victim exhibits to learn about both sides of the Holocaust. It is also good to learn from the perpetrator’s exhibit, as Roger Simon says in Remembering Otherwise excerpt; that a past with difficult knowledge could influence an individual’s present life (pg.10). The past works in tandem with the present and future, so I must understand the past of both the perpetrators and survivor/victims perspectives to, in a way, stop if from happening in the present and future. This contrasting affect of having both perpetrator and

The architectural design of the Holocaust Memorial is both confusing and intriguing, as Peter Eisman puts it, the aim of such a design is to relate signify how the events

3. The movie Lady Macbeth was an interesting movie. It was different from the other movies we have watched together as a class since a lot of people were engaged in the film. Out of the many sequences one sequence I found interesting was when the main characters Katherine and Sebastian plan to kill the child. Katherine was suffocating the child with the pillow. And Sebastian was holding on to the child’s feet. The director kept me involved in the action by having me feel sympathy for the child who was trying to kick his way out. Also, later on I was amazed to see Sebastian inform everyone that Katherine killed the child, the father, and the horse. I found that weird since he blamed her alone when he was equally part of it. That too kept the

August 13, 1961 Berlin, a thirteen foot concrete wall was being built to split Berlin into two, The East and The West. Some chose to stay, others left in fear of what was to come. A fifth of East Germany’s population had fled to the west, escaping the communist of the east. The wall left a tragic scar on all of Germany. Yet the wall could have been prevented, so why was the wall built? I will explain to you how the wall was built, through the discussion of East and West Germans’ relations and power struggles, what happened right before the wall was built, and the Berlin Wall being built.

I never expected to look forward to my own destruction. Normally, us walls look forward to staying up for eternity, and to watch the different types of people interact, and to see various events happen around us. When I was being built, I immediately felt a feeling of dread. Everywhere around me was dark and gloomy, people would point and stare, and others would fight to choose a side. The reason to my construction was quite unfortunate, it was a purpose to divide two groups of the same people and have them both live terribly different lives. My significance is I kept East and West Germany apart for years, and my destruction was one of the best things to happen to Germany.