Museum Of Tolerance Experience

The Museum of Tolerance in LA educates people about The Holocaust with exhibits like the stories of people that were Jewish.

There have been many atrocious acts that the world has had to endure, but there is not one that stands out as much as the Holocaust . Millions of Jews were used as scapegoats because of the declining economy. This all eventually led to the Germans trying to completely eradicate their race. Even though the Germans did kill 7 million Jews there were many survivors of the Holocaust who live to this day with profound effects in every facet of their life. The effects that we’re looking at are: the psychological abuse that the holocaust kids went through and how it affects them in them in their everyday life in the present, how the adult survivors transmit their trauma unto to their kids, how second generation holocaust are biologically different from the normal human, and how the Jews are starting to go back to their homeland to deal with their stress.

Though many innocents died without having the chance to smell freedom again, there have been survivors that have had the chance to openly describe their memories during the Holocaust to others. Each sentence, phrase, and word that the survivors expose through the testimony, are over and above powerful than anyone can imagine. It not only grabs you deep into another dimension, but it proves that no matter what religion, race, belief, or type of person you are, everyone's voice is powerful to change someone fully inside and outside… just like Cesia's

The Museum of Tolerance is a large museum that focuses on racism and prejudice. It is also home to a memoriam of the Holocaust. The museum attempts to crack the barriers of racism, prejudices, and discrimination. I had never previously visited the Museum of Tolerance before this class. I have been told of how it was mostly notorious for its Holocaust exhibit and its messages prejudice. From personal experience, the Museum of Tolerance appeared to be a popular place to visit and a place people often talk about or reference within conversations. The many exhibits in the museum expose the guests to different types of prejudice, hatred, and discriminations. Upon entrance to the museum there was a security checkpoint.

The Holocaust was the systematic killing and extermination of millions of Jews and other Europeans by the German Nazi state between 1939 and 1945. Innocent Europeans were forced from their homes into concentration camps, executed violently, and used for medical experiments. The Nazis believed their acts against this innocent society were justified when hate was the motivating factor. The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping on a society. It forces societies to examine the responsibility and role of citizenship, in addition to approaching the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. (Holden Congressional Record). Despite the adverse treatment of the Jews, there are lessons that can be learned from the Holocaust: The Nazi’s rise to power could have been prevented, the act of genocide was influenced by hate, and the remembrance of the Holocaust is of the utmost importance for humanity.

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.

Overall, the Holocaust was an awful moment in the world’s history, a Jewish survivor even said that occasionally during this time, “There were days when...” the survivor “...envied a dog” (Galler). But there isn’t just bad that produced from this event, there is importance we can learn from from this tragic event. It taught the world a lesson on how one man with lots of hate and power can affect

The Holocaust is known as one of the most devastating, or perhaps even the most devastating incident in human history. On paper, the dizzying statistics are hard to believe. The mass executions, the terrible conditions, the ruthlessness, and the passivity of the majority of witnesses to the traumatic events all seem like a giant, twisted story blown out of proportion to scare children. But the stories are true, the terror really happened, and ordinary citizens were convinced into doing savage deeds against innocent people. How, one must ask? How could anyone be so pitiless towards their neighbors, their friends? In a time of desperation, when a country was on its knees to the rest of the world, one man not only united Germans against a

"This is a humbling and deeply disturbing subject for anyone who approaches it, yet we have to learn the history of the Holocaust, to know it as best we can. Remembering the Holocaust and understanding how it came about is part of making sure it never happens ag

Introduction When I first began reading Eliezer Wiesel’s book Night I could not help but think about how someone that had suffered so much is able to write a book about what they lived through in the holocaust death camps as a teenager. When you think “teenager” you think rebellious, snotty and maybe even immature, you would never, in a thousand years, think about a teenager having to arrive with their family to the place where they will never see each other again because they are separated and sent to gas chambers. After watching the video Oprah and Elie Wiesel at Auschwitz, I’m still in disbelief about the fact that having undergone through so much pain and misery, to say the least, Elierzer says that he “had anger but never hate” for his

“Introduction to the Holocaust.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 27 Apr. 2017, www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143. Accessed 11 May 2017.

Lastly, when learning about the Holocaust, a lot of things come to mind. Like how thousands of men, women, and children had their lives ripped from them. How one man (with the help of others) caused this event that had a huge impact on the world. The people who survived the Holocaust, experienced unimaginable pain. Pain we will hopefully never have to experience. We need compassion to help us when we need it most. Whether it's the passing of a loved one, or losing your home. We need

Literature helps us remember the past and honor the victims of the Holocaust in many contrasting ways. “The Grand Mosque of Paris”, an explanatory text by Karen Ruelle, “A Great Adventure in the Shadow of a War” , a reflective essay by Mary Helen Dirkx, “ The Diary of a Young Girl”, a diary excerpt by Anne Frank, “The Diary of Anne Frank”, an autobiography by Anne Frank, the “Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize”, a speech by Elie Wiesel, and “Maus”, a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman all present the past in different ways to help us honor the victims of the Holocaust.

“Germany's Holocaust Memorial Problem-and Mine” is an article that analyzes the complexities of creating a memorial that will represent a great amount of Jewish people that perished in the hands of the Nazi Germany during the 1930's and early 1940's. James E. Young author of this article, was part of a five member committee that would agree whether or not to build a memorial and the process was very difficult because they had to make sure that the jewish community accepted the memorial and the Germans would not feel offended or targeted. What made things awkward in a way was that Young was Jewish so he would be responsible of the criticism for either accepting or denying a memorial option. What was significant in the article was that the topic

Memorialization of any sort can be a tedious process, but those regarding Holocaust remembrance were particularly challenging given the surrounding social and political controversies that ensued. This is primarily seen through the issue of representation, which consistently played a key role in the creation of both the Holocaust museum in Washington D.C., and the Dachau concentration camp memorial. While the Dachau memorial’s conception stages, the designers were contemplating which victim groups to include. For instance, the mayor of Dachau stated, “Please do not make the mistake of thinking that only heroes died in Dachau. Many inmates were…there because they illegally opposed the regime of the day….You have to remember there were many criminals and homosexuals in Dachau. Do we want a memorial to such people?” (Harold Maruse, “Dachau,” 151). With this quote, the mayor implies that the memorial will only be dedicated to those he deems worthy of representation. Likewise, the White House officials orchestrating the American Holocaust Museum also debated a similar notion regarding the inclusion of ethic victim groups other than the Jews. However, Wiesel and other Holocaust survivors believed that commemorating non-Jews was an “…obscene incursion into the boundaries of Holocaust memory by those whose country-men had persecuted survivors” (Edward T. Linenthal, Preserving Memory, 53). For this reason, and in order to avoid the generation of false memories, these groups