Museum Reflection Paper

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.

Washington D.C was an outstanding experience. It was a very frigid day in November. When we arrived we were all shivering in our boots. The first museum we went to was the Holocaust Museum. The Museum was very depressing. One of the exhibits that was the most depressing were the shoes of the victims who didn't survive the Holocaust. I didn't remember what the quote but it was deep .

The Museum of Tolerance was an awesome experience for me and for all the 8th graders. We learned about the children of the holocaust , the Anne frank exhibit , and about WWll. I really like the part where there were words and it made Anne's face and she was facing the Hollywood hills and I learned that she wanted to be an actor and wanted to go to Hollywood. The most memorable parts was when we went into the gas chamber. It was just an unbelievable sensation it gave me the chills being in there and seeing that dark grey room. One of the less well know children of the holocaust was Monia Levisnski from Lithuania. I got her as I my kid when they gave us little cards. Sadly he died along with 1.5 million other children. So that is just some of the things we saw at the Museum of Tolerance, a very inspirational

But it was not until 1993 that the famous United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened in Washington, D.C, by a group of survivors. The Memorial Museum was created for those who lost their life during the Holocaust, this museum commemorates their lives, and brings remembrance to this gruesome event. The mission of this living memorial, as stated on their website is, “The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity.” One of the main focuses behind the museum is to shut down the alarming rise in Holocaust denial and antisemitism views. Avi Beker, argues, “In remarks by politicians and educators regarding the content and purpose of the museum memorializing the Holocaust is regarded as something of a national American mission, the obligation of a superpower that sees itself responsible for preserving the moral character of the world.” Today, there are Holocaust deniers living where the Holocaust occurred, there is still genocide and threats of genocide happening around the world. All of this is happening while we are at a time where there are very few living Holocaust survivors left. Visiting this museum will hopefully inspire individuals to see what they can do to prevent this traumatic event from happening in the future. Although the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has this mission of ending

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust, located adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The Museum provides documentation, study, and interpretation of the Holocaust history.

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.

Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum gives the reader an extensive overview in the development of the Holocaust Memorial Museum that is located in Washington D.C. In this edition of the book, Linenthal writes a preface. In his opening preface, Linenthal discusses the importance of teaching the Holocaust. He writes about how over time, those in power saw it necessary for there to be a national memorial. Linenthal mentions how some thought that a memorial dedicated just to the Holocaust would cause people to ignore the rich history of Judaism as an entire civilization. Another argument was that funds that could be aiding Jews that are still suffering from anti-Semitism in foreign lands or to help those that were Jewish and struggled to remain Jewish in a secular culture. It was also thought that possibly remembering the Holocaust too well would muddle the relationship between Jews’ and non-Jews. The biggest argument was that the Holocaust was a unique event. Some countered that the argument was only used to claim superiority and have supreme victim status. Another argument was that the Holocaust would be used incorrectly as a filter for modern-day political issues. One Jewish

If you're planning on going to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. anytime soon, it will be an emotional experience. Plan on it being quiet and you probably won't be taking any pictures. It is a life changing experience and I highly recommend taking a

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There were two exhibits that fascinated and disturbed me. The first one was the concentration camp exhibit, especially the model of how gas chambers worked. The second exhibit that fascinated and disturbed me were the videos of what was done to prisoners who were used as test subjects. The concentration camp exhibit fascinated and disturbed me because of the scale of how things were and how big the gas chambers were and the efficiency of the Nazis. Before going to the museum, I thought the gas chambers were just small chambers built to hold around one person at a time but after seeing the model, it really hit me how big the scale actually was. There were a lot of men, women, and children going into the gas chambers at one time, all of them coming out dead. Then how the Nazis disposed of the bodies, just burning them or throwing them into mass graves if the burning process was too slow. That exhibit really gave me a view into the scale of what the Nazis were really doing and the true horror of

The holocaust museum located in Washington D.C allows all to see just that. Having exhibits that thoroughly shows perspective into what children and adults went through as the world changed evilly through their eyes.

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 Holocaust Memorial Museum is located at Miami Beach, and survivor think that is a great place for the museum to be in there since almost all of survivor live in that area. My experience in there, was very knowledgeable because I did not that it was a huge history about what Adolf Hitler did to the Jews people. I went with my Cultural Pluralism Class and I noticed of the wall of the Museum it was brief writing about Jews History. Also there is an arm and in that part of the museum they have writing the names of all people who die in the concentration camps, around the arm was a little lake with flower and I think that people can go and seat in there to meditated because it looks very calm. In addition, when I looked to the memorial I think is basically a cemetery with no graves with names of individuals ungraded. Also, the museum has more sculptures that represents different histories and feelings, and almost of the sculptures were made with a stone from Jerusalem. The museum is a good historical experience because visitors can hear speech of survivor and one of the survivor that I saw was Victor Farkas, he shares his history with my class. He said that he lost his father, when he went to the labor camp because the Jews can’t go to the army, and with a young age he was in charge of his family. Also, he said when he got in there concentration, he thought this it, and I think when thought that is because he probably thought that he gone die.

I decided to go into teaching after a mission trip I took to Haiti during my senior year of high school. I loved interacting with the children and getting to know each of them. After that, I decided to be a teacher and make a difference in the lives of young students. I did not know where I was going to go to school but I knew I wanted to work with young children. My cousin was the one that discovered Winthrop University. I looked at the teaching program they offered and I was very pleased with what I found. I considered studying Family and Consumer Sciences before finally deciding on a Bachelor’s in Early Childhood Education. Currently, I am a rising junior at Winthrop and I feel like I have learned so much already. I have enjoyed all of

At the beginning of the class when I first heard that we had to do a museum project of things that we have collect, I was excited because, I knew exactly want I wanted to do my report on. I chose to do my museum project on all the fun things my boyfriend and I did throughout the three and a half year we have been dating. I have collected most of our movie tickets, concert tickets, live performance, hotel keys, plane and travel stubs. Before we had to assemble them into categories for this project I kept them all inside a shadow box I found at a local thrift shop but then I needed to come up with a better display, that’s where I thought of picture frames. So, to start my collection I had to keep each ticket stub and then add to my collection after we went somewhere or did something fun. Before I knew anything about arts I would found myself during my free time doing something that directly related to the arts. We have on a couple occasions gone to our local Melodrama which is about 30 minutes from our house, in a small quaint town called Oceano. I remember when we would plan to go we would get dress up in whatever theme the show was that night. We went to a Western Bonanza show so we dressed up in our cowboy attire. Most of the shows we attended at the Melodrama were around the holiday season.