Personal Narrative: My Visit To The Holocaust Museum

3. I stood in the boxcar for a couple of seconds, and I looked at the scuffed floor, where the paint was worn down to the wood, and I could really picture all of those people being crammed into the boxcar and sent to their deaths.

Can it be said that sets of real events are intrinsically tragic, comic, or epic, such that the representation of those events as a tragic, comic, or epic story can be assessed to factual accuracy?” (White 38-39). Are historical events categorized as specific genres, and is the representation of them limited to these specific genres? The limit of representation of historical events is a subjective matter that involves the conflict between the preservation of historical authenticity and the author’s narrative techniques such as emplotment and figuration. Several theorists, including Hayden White, Barbara Foley, and Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, discuss this issue in relation to the Holocaust. They comment on the effectiveness of various narrative

What would your account of the Holocaust be? The Holocaust was a unique event in twentieth century history which, evolved between 1933 and 1945. Beginning with discrimination; then the Jews were separated from their communities and persecuted; they were treated as less than human beings and murdered. While the Jews of Europe were the Nazis’ primary target, many millions of other people were also imprisoned, enslaved and murdered. These people included Roma, those with mental or physical disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, trade unionists, political opponents, Poles and Soviet prisoners of war. The Nazis did not act alone. They were supported and assisted by people from within the countries they occupied across Europe. Most countries stood by while the Nazis and their accomplices carried out the mass murder of the Jewish people. Thus, in 1941 there were about 11 million Jews living in Europe; by May 1945 the Nazis had murdered six million of them. One-and-a-half million of these were children.

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

The article “At the Holocaust Museum” By David Oliver Relin is about the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. a place that not many people forget about. Objectivity is a statement not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts. Subjectivity is a statement based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions. Some non-fiction texts are mostly objective. The article “At the Holocaust Museum” is balanced between subjective and objective.

World War II ended in Europe on May 7, 1945, but to many survivors of the Holocaust, the war would remain with them for the rest of their lives. Not only had it brutally stripped them of their families, but also of their own humanity. As the survivors came to realizations that their families would not return to them and the initial hardships of returning to a normative life wore off, the memories of the concentration camps and the shock of brutal separation from family came flooding back into their minds. These memories often caused radical change in mental behavior and, to a degree, somaticized themselves into the “survivor’s syndrome.” (Niederland 14) The symptoms seen in “survivor’s

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.

Night is a personal account of the Holocaust and the brutal reality of concentration camps in Poland. The short narrative is written by Elie Wiesel, an orthodox Jew, that was taken from his home in Sighet, a small town in Transylvania and forced to experience life within the walls of one of the deadliest concentration camps of the Holocaust. It was not until 1944 that Hungary, where Wiesel and his family resided, was affected by the catastrophe that was annihilating all of the other Jewish communities across Europe. In May of this year, Wiesel along with his family and almost all of the inhabitants of the Sighet shtetl were deported to Poland and placed in Auschwitz. At this time, Wiesel was the young age of 15 years old. Wiesel’s father, mother, and little sister all died in the Holocaust. Wiesel survived and emigrated to France. He then later published his story in several different languages. Wiesel terms Night a “deposition" rather than a memoir, novel, or any other type of literary work. Night does not seem to be a record of facts nor is it an impartial document. Instead, it should be viewed and read as an attempt to re-create the thoughts and experiences that Wiesel endured as a young, teenage concentration camp prisoner.

Analyzing objective and subjective text in At the Holocaust Museum By David Oliver Relin. At the Holocaust Museum, the article is more of a balanced piece of writing, containing both objective and subjective text. Objective text is personal feelings/opinions in considering and representing facts in a text, Subjective text is based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions in a text. Most non-fiction texts are objective pieces but At the Holocaust Museum was balanced. Objective and subjective text in At the Holocaust Museum By David Oliver Relin.

I have been to the Holocaust Museum a number of times for various different events and occasions. I know many people who work there and I even know some survivors. The Holocaust though, has always been just a hard thing to grasp in my mind. Even with all of my connections to the Holocaust I still feel so disconnected with the events that transpired. I think this was my 6th time visiting the permanent exhibit, but this was the first time I did it without a tour. I looked at the pieces of the museum that particularly interested me, not what the tour guide showed me. I thought about the questions of this assignment and was having a difficult time really coming up with an answer. I now realize that the fact I don’t have an answer is my answer.

This was my last night in Sighet. In the morning, the Nazi’s are coming to transfer us to Auschwitz because of the “war.” I, unlike everyone else, knew something else was going on. Im not sure what but it isn’t because of the war. I was honestly just worried about how my little brother is going to handle himself. He knows to be strong when times are tough but he may not be tough enough.

He pretended not to be a jew lover. 1933 concentration camps were all Jews were put to kill or use as “slaves”, a Jewish family with a married couple were sent to a concentration camp in Auschwitz, where a nazi soldier called Kurzbach that has black hair, white skin and green eyes were friends with the family, when the family got there and Kurzbach recognize the family from a friend that especially told Kurzbach to keep an eye on the Jewish family, while the Jewish family were entering the camp, Kurzbach started to yell at the family and separate the couple but the family recognizes Kurzbach and got less nervous, when the family got separated Kurzbach immediately went to look for the family, first he went with Conrad in the night when kurzbach was guarding the camp, walking around the camp, he suddenly found Conrad that was waiting for him, he approaches to Conrad, “Hey, here a piece of bread, I can’t be here much longer, I will go with your wife and give her food, later I tell you the plan”, Kurzbach told him whispering, “Thank you” Conrad said. Kurzbach went looking for Leah, but he couldn’t find her, the other nazi soldier saw him, “What are you doing here, go where you belong” nazi soldier said,

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”.

The rights principle relies on the idea that people have the right to make their own decisions without interference from society or the government. If all of our actions were controlled by the government we would not live in a free society, and the rights principle thrives in a society that allows free decision making. The government cannot possibly know what would benefit every individual so it should be up to the person to make their own decisions. If the Washington Holocaust Museum were to be shut down that would completely eliminate the option of going to the museum for people who are interested. In order for people to have the right to choose the museum must stay open. An aspect of being American has always been that “Americans have always

After spending some time at Brandenburg Gate and the Holocaust memorial, I thought I should head over to the Reichstag. I had a vague idea where it was, I knew it was relatively close and didn't think I would need a map. Incorrect! After a 1km walk in the wrong direction along the Tiergarten, I finally decided to ask someone for advice. Two older gentlemen walking towards me stopped to help. They told me it should take around 40 minutes to get there. Huh, 40 minutes? How freaking far past it had I walked? I couldn't possibly have been walking for that long, could I? I turned around, walked in the direction the men said too, made a left into the Tiergarten, followed the signage and 15 minutes later I arrived there. 15 Minutes! That's better!