Holocaust Observation Report

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 one of the twentieth century's greatest tragedies that were made possible by anti-Semitism, the indifference of other nations, isolationism politics, and outright fear.

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 Dallas Holocaust Museum is the the heart of downtown Dallas and is tucked away on a busy downtown street. This was my first time visiting the museum and it was an amazing experience. The tour started off with a pillar representation of the number of Jews killed during the twelve-year time period known as the Holocaust. I was unaware of the fact that eighty-percent of the Jews killed during the Holocaust happened in the year 1942. The tour opened my eyes to more of the personal accounts instead of just the vast number of deaths during this genocide.

Going to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C. it really opened my eyes to how these group of people was treated so bad but they still kept to their faith and didn’t lose hope. Another thing I thought was interesting that the museum they did was give you an Identification Card of a person and it told their story and short background of their life and at the end it told you if they survived the Holocaust so it was sad at the end to find out the person I had didn’t survive. I think everyone who has the chance to visit the museum because you really see how the Jews were treated before the Holocaust and how they were even treated unfairly in other European countries, not just Germany. Being an African American and knowing what my ancestors had to go through during slavery it shows a lot of similarities like being the outside group amongst a race of people who think they are more powerful than you. However, from the Holocaust, I think the nation has really started to put forth laws that protect the minority racial group.

The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles educates people about the Holocaust with exhibits like the Anne Frank. In the first place the Anne Frank exhibit taught us about Anne's family and also about her life in Amsterdam. In addition the Museum of tolerance show us what happened to all the innocent people back then and to never judged a person by their appearance. Also the Holocaust was part of Genocide because they treated all of the Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah Witness, Homosexuals like they were animals. The Holocaust exhibit helps people to understand about the the life of people who lived in the Holocaust , so that in the future it doesn't occur

In the holocaust museum the doors of the elevator close quickly behind you get the feeling that you're trapped, that something bad is about to happen. It is fairly even but it's more objective than subjective. The urban definition have objectivity is, of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts. The urban definition have subjectivity is, based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions. Some articles are mostly non-fiction articles are mostly objective, but At the Holocaust Museum By David Oliver Relin is equally objective and subjective.

Last friday a guest came (Erik Cuba) he had a power point to demonstrate Auschwitz. Over 2 million jews died in the horrible camps.The worst part is that Auschwitz was amazingly beautiful,they were very OCD about their building style. Beautiful red brick buildings were perfectly lined up in a very very straight parallel bock sections. The grass was very well kept the trees were also very very well trimmed.

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

I considered myself lucky that I was born in 21st century. Everyone today has a voice and stand up for what they think is right or wrong. The visit to the Museum of Tolerance was an eye-opening experience for me. I had heard about Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party before but I did not have any idea of all the sufferings they had brought to the Jewish people in Germany. The Holocaust is one of the most significant event that has happened in the world’s history. The visit to the museum showed me the horrifying facet of discrimination and inhumanity from the past. Jews were being blamed for Germany’s loss during World War I and economic hardships in the country. During the Holocaust, Jewish were discriminated, persecuted and murdered. I felt really sad hearing

Anti-Semitism in Europe did not begin with Adolf Hitler. Though use of the term itself

For my final paper I will be using all of the data and information I have collected about making my argument upon why the Germans were so oblivious. I will be talking about the events that occurred between 1933 and 1943. I will be summarizing how these specific events led to the rise of Hitler’s power and the Holocaust. I will summarize how these events affected people back then and how it has affected people today.

As I sit and think of being separated from my family and friends, I become very angry. My initial response to the video made me wonder how a mother can give up her child. I also began to question how can a child forget his past, religion, and name? This must have been very traumatizing. I cannot imagine being forced to leave the only life I knew as a young child. Nevertheless, it would kill me deeply inside to give up my child so suddenly. In fact, giving up my child to someone I did not know would be impossible. The life threating experience the victims of the holocaust faced is hardly thought of during my life time. I continuously think and try to examine how the harsh treatment made those of the holocaust survivors. Their ability to speak

I disagree with Kluger who said, “The various Shoah museums and reconstituted concentration camp sites do the exact opposite. That’s why I find them so hard to take; they don’t take you in, they spit you out. Moreover, they tell you what you ought to think, as no art or science museum ever does. They impede the critical faculty” (198). While I was given a great deal of information about Mauthausen in all forms; from our tour guide, to videos, to pictures, and informational plaques; I still was not told what to think. I was given a brief history and idea based on individual and collective memories. I was then able to make my own conclusions.

It is a well known fact that World War II had a massive impact on Jews all over Europe in many ways, whether they were children, adults, or even elderly. Its effects were both abysmal and hideous because of the Nazi regime, who used Jews as targets of discrimination. Throughout this era, European Jews became subjected to harsh persecutions, ultimately resulting in over 5,000 Jewish communities being destroyed, as well as the genocides of more than 6 million, 1.5 million of them being young children. Not only were they physically impacted, Jews were additionally affected emotionally, psychologically, and even spiritually. Despite this, they attempted to make the best of their dire situations by trying to get some sense of normalcy into their lives by celebrating holidays and educating themselves. Their daily lives were already quite difficult, from even the smallest things such as having small sleeping spaces and difficulty obtaining necessities, to more crucial aspects such as having to hide from the invading Nazis. Combined, all these aspects make it indisputable that the Jews of Europe had suffered more than anyone else during World War II.