Holocaust Museum Observation

"War Crimes Trials." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2017.

The Holocaust was one of the most destructive human events in time. There were many articles written about this tragic event. They can have a big impact on the audience in either an objective or subjective way. Objectivity is facts that do not influence people's feelings. Subjectivity is based on personal feelings and emotions.

Seventh grade, bowl cut fresh, skinny jeans tight with poppy orange Asics to complete the look. It was the day I had been dreading. Today was the day that a group of thirty-two thirteen-year-olds was to travel to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. I remember feeling nervous, my stomach sinking, shaking on the bus while my friends giggle and talk. I understood how incredibly horrific the Holocaust was and knew that once I stepped into those exhibits I may, at any time, lose it. As we pulled up everyone got off the bus, we all proceeded to the entrance of I didn't. I was able to stay composed the entire time which was fairly surprising. I broke that night outside of a Subway near Port Hueneme. I remember slamming my fist into a concrete

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.

I chose to visit the Saint Louis Holocaust Museum for my independent field trip on April 6, 2016 to get out of my typical comfort zone and learn about a specific group of people that endured the largest genocide in recorded history. Upon entering the building, I was shocked to see the number of uniforms and other items that were recovered from World War II. This was the first thing that really set the tone for me and put me in the right emotional state to think about the fact that these are real families and children that were murdered simply because the Nazi’s wanted to. A few of the numbers that really shocked me include, at least six million Jewish were killed, thirteen percent of the population of Russia was wiped out, and a grand total of seventy to eighty-five million people were killed in WW2 (3-4% of the world’s population).

The Holocaust was a scary event that took place in Germany and killed many Jews. There were heaps of human hair that were shaved from there scalps. This is an objective reason that is backed up by facts of what happened. Objectivity in some non-fiction texts show that statements are measurable, observable, and factual. Also subjectivity is based off of emotions, feelings, and opinions.

Have you heard of the Holocaust Museum located in Washington D.C? It is the largest Holocaust related Museum in all of America and as of June 2015, 38.6 million people have visited the museum, 24% of which are school children. Visiting the museum is very moving, and once you enter the exhibition, it is eerily silent, except for the several videos playing throughout the museum. Planning on heading to the National Holocaust Museum soon? It will be a moving experience, and bringing your kids would help their education along as letting them know what really happened.

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

Due to an extreme heat wave that occurred in Poland during August, the management at the Auschwitz Memorial installed sprinklers outside the entrance to keep the visitors cool. This instead sparked a controversy with the Jewish people that visited the memorial, who compared the mist stations to the “showers” that were used at the camp to exterminate members of their faith during the World War II era. There are some that say that the museum should have been more sensitive towards the issue, although the officials do not see the connection, saying, “It is really hard for us to comment on some suggested historical references since the mist sprinkles do not look like showers and the fake showers installed by Germans inside some of the gas chambers

In the Holocaust, children suffered many horrific and awful things. Kids today don’t realize how easy they have it compared to children in the Holocaust. We don’t have to suffer being tested on and abuse like they did. So if you ever feel like you don’t have life easy or your life is awful, think about if you had to live in those death

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”.

Traveling the world made me realize how lucky I am to live in the United States. I have read books that detail the struggles of Holocaust victims. I have even visited a Holocaust museum in Washington, DC but nothing can compare to the sadness I felt when I entered the wrought iron gate of the Dachau concentration camp. This camp is located in Dachau, Germany and served as a prison for Jewish people and prisoners of war during World War II. This

The topic that I decided to research about for my project is the types of experiments the Nazis attempted on the Jews. The types of experiments are important because it represents the Jew’s lost of human rights.

As we roamed through Washington we saw this museum it is called Holocaust Memorial Museum. We went inside and saw these two big clear doors and we walked inside it was pitch dark. Their was a path that took us to a room and a video was playin. That video was talking about a boy named Daniel that has survived the holocaust. It was a really depressing video that talked about his way of living. We kept walking and we actually took the wrong path (oops) so we kind off messed up the order but we got back on track.

Momma and I have just seen light from the great outdoors after being stuck in train car/carts for six days that arrived at a Jewish concentration camp called “Auschwitz”. Momma and I are being taken out of the carts as we are exiting a mob breaks loose and we are in the middle of the group. As the SS officers quickly end it by shooting their guns, I good look to see how man of us are here, and we are a lot maybe almost 300 of us. The same SS officer that shot his gun is separating us by gender and then we let go of our hands that we so dearly held tightly, I still see Momma as she is in her line until I last see her. Once she is assigned a block I never see her again.