I Chose The Exhibition, Give Me Your Children : Voices From The Lodz Ghetto

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

More than 30,000 Jews were arrested to go to these ghettos. Once they had everything ready for all of the undesirables. SS guards were hired to do the dirty work of putting all of the prisoners to do forced labor until they died. No one cared how all of the undesirables were treated. It became an amusement to watch one die or get killed. Considering that's all they wanted was for all the innocent people to die. Every Day would be the same watching friends and families die, working for the Nazi getting nothing in return, digging their own graves, and only getting one cup of black coffee with soup that was just broth a day. Women even got raped by SS guards during this time considering the women were separated from the men to different camps. No one did anything to stop it because of the fear of death. In 1939 the Nazi had figured out a way to make sure there will never be a Jew again they called it the final

“The ghetto was to be liquidated entirely. Departures were to take place street by street, starting the next day” (Wiesel 13). Days later after they felt safe again, they would be taken to the camps, to be worked to death. They were dehumanized from that

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.

The Warsaw Ghetto By the middle of 1942, Jews in the ghettos realized that all their former residents were being murdered, not sent to labor camps. In the Warsaw Ghetto

was a World War II ghetto established by the Nazi German authorities for Polish Jews

The holocaust can be regarded as one of the most awful events in history and the swastika continues to be a constant reminder of the horrendous acts of hate that were bestowed onto human lives. More than 1 million people were brutally murdered at the hands of an evil dictator named Adolf Hitler. Some of the vivid events and actions that took place during this time have been highlighted in the poem “The Trains” written by William Heyen. Heyen discusses the trains of Treblinka which carried the prized possessions of the many people who had been dropped off to death and/or concentration camps. In the poem, the author attempts to appeal to audiences of the 21st century around the world who do not fully understand the horrific incidents that occurred during the holocaust and the tragedy inflicted on its victims.

Has it ever dawned upon you how a twelve year old boy might have experienced the Holocaust? In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Mr. Wiesel told his story, leaving us with an astonishing and vehement view to what it was like to be sent to a concentration camp at the young age of twelve. To enhance the powerful effect of the book, a multitude of motifs were utilized, although one was undeniably conspicuous: The dehumanization of the Jews. The book was a full chronicle of one young man’s experience of the Holocaust, which included multifarious occurrences of the horrors Jewish prisoners were put through, ultimately removing the essence of their humanity. Symbolism was incorporated into this motif, in which Mr. Wiesel showed how one’s eyes not

“A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load - little children. Babies! Yes, I saw it with my own eyes… those children in the flames.” (Elie Wiesel, 24) This memoir, told by Elie Wiesel in his book “Night” and published in 1956, describes his experiences surviving the Holocaust. He and his father are forced to endure extremely traumatic experiences. Throughout “Night”, there are moments that are incredibly powerful. These moments are powerful because it really shows how horrible the Holocaust was, and the terrors not only Elie went through, but that almost all Jewish people experienced.

The Holocaust can be described by facts, pictures, history lessons, among others, that can make a strong and lasting impression on an individual. However, testimonies are when the true horrors of this event become real. Testimonies are personal. Their authentic emotions, thoughts, and feelings are wrapped up in a little box with a red bow and given to the public as a fragile gift. Survivor Manya Friedman wrote, “I had little confidence when I started. My hands were so shaky I could barely read my own writing. As I started writing, I was given confidence, support, and encouragement. If I can do this, then you can too” (“The Transition”). Due to her strength and many others, individuals who weren’t affected by the holocaust are fortunate to be provided with such thoughtful insight about how the lives of these Jewish individuals were affected and remain affected. Even so, their experiences are something we will never be able to fathom.

The Nazis took the people and their property. Hitler did not stop at German Jews, he took Jewish people from all over Eastern Europe and Jews were forced to leave all their belongings behind and could only bring necessities, such as one change of clothes and bedding. They were also given an insufficient rations of food. Thousands of people in these ghettos starved to death or died of disease. Many people did not want to live after visiting this “hellish” place. Some Jews tried to get out of this, but they were powerless against Nazi soldiers. For example, in one ghetto soldiers told 6 Jewish people to run and shot them down as they ran away. These Jewish people were put in a human cage with no way to get out. Some were surrounded by barbed wire and some had a fence of soldiers keeping them in.

Then came the ghettos when the Nazis would push Jewish people into smaller, crowded sections of cities and store them until transferring them to more restricted concentration camps. After arriving in the camps, Jews were separated from friends and family, worked until they were weak and some eventually lost their lives at the hands of

Slowly but steadily through the 1930’s jews begin to go out of business. They are losing their jobs, homes, rights and property. Jews begin to realize they no longer have a place in the world anymore. Women are forced into abortion to keep from passing down any hereditary diseases and trying to stop the line of anyone of the jewish decent. Germans start building ghettos around 1940. These ghettos are where the jews were separated from the rest of the population. Thousands of jews were put into areas smaller than a mile. They were forced out of their homes with little as no time to pack their things and evacuated into their new homes. If anyone refused they were immediately

The very first ghetto was made illegally , and was shut down soon after. Thousands who lived in the Ghettos starved, were shot, or committed suicide. All lot of people went mad from hunger There were 9 really big ghettos mostly remembered. The biggest ghetto was Warsaw was created in October 1940, there were over 400,ooo Jews there. 56,065 people were killed on spot or deported to camps.At least 300,ooo were shot or gassed.The ghettos would only last for about 4 years.

When the Germans invaded Poland, the Jews thought they would survive as their race always had, by petitioning and buying off authorities. They soon discovered that the Nazi threat was much more awful than they had envisioned. Their organizations and homes were appropriated, and they were compelled to live in a ghetto. Eventually, the ghetto was cleared, and they were placed in some of the seventeen hundred large and small forced-labor camps in Poland. On the day the Krakow ghetto was shut, four thousand individuals were discovered stowing away and were