Reflection Paper On Museum Of Tolerance

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.

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.

During the tour, Nazi propaganda and anti-Semitism was brought up as a cause of the Holocaust. There were examples of propaganda artwork. One included a photo of storm troopers outside a Jewish

The readings from these past weeks on on issues of race and cultural patrimony were too informative considering the Native American exhibits I have attended, my work in an anthropology museum, and anthropology classes I have taken. Somehow, Cooper’s “The Long Road to Repatriation” provided more context and weight to the historical atrocities against Native Americans than any of my other educational experiences. To be fair, I am not a scholar of Native history, but I am certainly not uninformed, and it should not take a scholar or be a native person to understand these issues. As Lonetree mentioned, the Holocaust Museum presents a difficult subject and forces the visitor to “confront inhumanity” (106). I think the impact of this information as an educational experience in a museum would have a huge impact on current social and political tensions.

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.’ We must combat the growing tide of prejudice, antisemitism, and racism.

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.

The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus is about the horrendous events such as hate crimes that were happening during World War II. The definition of Holocaust from the museum website perspective is “The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews and five million other persons by the Nazi regime and its collaborators” (Holocaust and Survivor Defined.). “The term Holocaust comes from the Greek words of “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burn) which was used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an alter” (History.com). The museum has been around for more than 25 years, in Farmington Hills and has been acknowledged by the Wall Street Journal. The museum does not only reflect on the evil, but also the strength and the courage of the victims affected in this genocide. The purpose of the Holocaust museum is to remember those who have passed away and survived, as well as, to teach and inform others about the events. There were many exhibits to choose from such as, the Jewish heritage, the descent into Nazism and the postwar period. The exhibit I will be focusing on is called, The Camp System.

In the Anne Frank exhibit they show you different artifacts collected after the end of the Holocaust. Such as a copy of her diary, letters to and from her pen pal, baby pictures, etc. Besides the information and artifacts in front of you, there's a wall that catches your eye. It's a wall covered with bright articles of clothing, but as you continue walking the clothing gradually becomes darker. You can even see a few uniforms that prisoners wore in concentration camps. These articles of clothing represent the children murdered during World War 2. Topics like these, victims of genocide, are better learned about in person. Seeing a video or things that a child owned during a horrific time is more personal and powerful than reading about it in a

The one thing that I wish they would implement to their museum to make it more interesting is to add more Holocaustic casted models. I got this idea by visiting the African American museum. And what set them apart was that they had a whole set of statue models on display to place a person in that mindset of being there. If the Holocaust museum would issue more life-like cast, then I think people will feel more engaged in the tour. In the African American museum, I remember the faces on the life-like models. The faces with looks of confusions, fear, and sometimes happiness. I think by adding this would bring a whole new element to the Holocaust museum. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the opportunity. I do plan on returning in the near future. Maybe not to that museum in particular, but a more official museum like the ones in Germany. I plan on traveling across the world one day, and visiting the Holocaust museum in Aw>>> is defiantly on my

There were "Righteous Among the Nations" in every country overrun by the Nazis, and their deeds often led to the rescue of Jewish lives. Neighbors or friends of the Jews would help by warning the families of the oncoming danger, by hiding Jews under the floorboards in their house, or by lying to the Nazi officers about the Jews race and life. These people risked their own safety to help the Jews who were being hunted by the Nazi’s. In the museum we had the chance to read stories of these amazing acts of kindness provided by normal people sick of watching others perish. Some of the stories I read were about a couple who pretended a young Jewish girl was their maid and was not Jewish, another was of a German family that hid three children under the floorboards in their kitchen for the entire wars

The Museum of Tolerance showcased a lot on discrimination and violence that has happened not only to the Jews during the world war, but also throughout time in history. It examines racism and prejudice throughout the world and incorporated several topic that was went over in class. The act of racism negatively affected many people, including leaders and people we regard highly in today's society. The main focus starts with how hate rose in Germany and how Hitler came to power, to the violence that came out of these hateful thoughts, and how even to this day there are still hate crime. The Museum of Tolerance included sections that had many boards of text that described the situation at various time. It also had videos, and a whole hour long

The museum had many exhibits that showed how much the Jews suffered during these terrible times. The first place that we’ve seen was a hall of mirrors where photos of young children were shown and their name was called. Each one of these children was killed in the Holocaust. There were more than a million children killed in the Holocaust. These names are read without stopping

Visiting the Museum of Tolerance this past weekend was an experience I will never forget. The whole concept of the Holocaust always saddened me and it never ceased to surprise me how cruel and inhuman this massacre had been. As I sat next to my family listening to a 92 year old Holocaust survivor named William Harvey speak about his experience I was immediately touched and truly humbled. William Harvey was born Berehova, Czech Republic which if now part of the Ukraine, on May 20th 1924. During his speech he explained how difficult his childhood was and how he was born to be an adult. He was a part of a family of six so his mother had to work very hard to to raise them because his father was very ill and Mr. Harvey

It would be an educational to many people who visit the museum to learn about him. It would teach people the backstory of his courageousness and the Jewish lives that were saved from murder at the largest killing center (Auschwitz). It created a front and even though he could get in trouble and could face serious consequences he still went through with it. It is an encouraging story and can show something positive that happened in the

The Museum of Tolerance has a legitimate cause that can change the world and end discrimination by encouraging personal responsibility towards ending these vices in society. Promoting the importance of personal responsibility by showing the hatred of Nazi Germany, the civil rights movement, and the violence of current warring countries illustrates the persistence of human rights abuses over the last seven decades. The dramatization also shows the individual contributions to these atrocities and the actions of a few people that accepted the challenge to change society. On the other hand, ending the suffering of children as illustrated in the exhibit is important for protecting future generations. The Museum shows the progression of the lives