This essay is about the Museum of tolerance: What I saw, How I felt and what did I leave the Museum thinking.

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.

" One of the many people who have visited the holocaust museum said that it was another thing to put yourself in the Jews place. Learning about the holocaust you would know that it's bad and unfortunate for all of the Jews. But going

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

Technology has given the sex industry power in which they can market, deliver, and control women all around. Many of the sex trafficking occurs in low-developed countries, mainly because they do not have the economic factors to survive. Since there are many limited employment opportunities, the United States faces problems in which American children are recruited to be exploited in pornography, prostitution, or sex trafficking (U.S. Department of Justice 2015).

Leila Aboulela writes “The Museum” in a way that can make the reader feel like they are connected and present with the characters. Held in a prestigious university in Scotland, the University of Aberdeen, “The Museum” highlights many difficult challenges that can be faced in a lifetime, and that makes the story even more relatable. Leila Aboulela really knows how to capture her readers, which makes her story so memorable. Aboulela uses explicit adjectives to describe common things that advance the story even more. For example the reoccuring color blue on page 372 that evokes the sad feeling that Shadia develops throughout the story.

The Holocaust was an example of extreme institutional racism and remembering the events is a good way to ensure that it doesn’t happen again. This requires an understanding of tolerance and why people lack it. If we figure this out, we can teach against these habits and rehabilitate those who have them to make the world better.

There was a time where i had a realization about the world i live in. We took a trip to Washington D.C where we went to museums and learned a lot about history but one museum stuck out to me. It was the Holocaust museum. I saw how Jewish people were treated back then simply because of their religion. Their valuables were taken by the Germans, their homes were either raided or taken away from them. They were forced to live in very small ghettos with 400,000 of them. They were killed and beaten on the streets and nazis treated them as puppets. They embarrassed them by making them dance for their own amusement. They were treated extremely poorly whereas the nazis were treated with respect. It made me think about a time where people discriminated against african americans during segregation. Throughout this time, African Americans were treated as second class citizens to white people. They could not use the same water fountains, restrooms, or restaurants and they were stuck with the dirty and gross ones whereas white people were treated respectfully. If a white person was standing and an african american person was sitting they had to get up for the white person.

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.

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

When we arrived at the entrance to the exhibit, each of us received an identification card. The cards each told the story a Holocaust prisoner. My family stepped into the elevator with a few other people and up we went to the exhibit. As soon as we exited the elevator, everyone was flooded with hundreds of words printed on the walls that spoke about the Holocaust and its survivors. As we went through the top floor of the exhibit, we learned that this particular floor contained information from 1933-1939, when the Nazi’s had first come into power. It explained the Nuremberg Race Laws, Kristallnacht, and the invasion of Poland.

For this assignment, I visited the Holocaust Museum with 3 of my peers. The museum consisted of a very well organized circular room that had different posters with information on them, and they also had pictures of items that were used and how things looked. The pictures that were portrayed helped me better understand the concept of the paragraphs that I was reading next to them. There was also a separate room with letters from people that survived the holocaust and they explained what were the things that they went through.

The Holocaust museum and study center, located Downtown of El Paso, Texas was constructed as a memorial to recognize those who were brutally murdered in the concentration camps by Adolf Hitler in 1933 to 1945. This building serves as a place where people can visit and study the history behind the Holocaust. The city of EL Paso built this museum to educate the community and prevent the Holocaust from reoccurring in history. Jewish families who have lost loved ones or are survivors come here and recognize the millions of Jews who were killed in the tragic event. The Holocaust remains one the most tragic events in history.

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.

The mission statement of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, Illinois is, “The mission of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is perhaps best expressed in our founding principle: Remember the Past, Transform the Future. The Museum is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Holocaust by honoring the memories of those who were lost and by teaching universal lessons that combat hatred, prejudice and indifference. The Museum fulfills its mission through the exhibition, preservation and interpretation of its collections and through education programs and initiatives that foster the promotion of human rights and the elimination of genocide.” The museum does fulfill its mission of letting the visitors of the museum experience what really happened during the Holocaust in several exhibits; before, during, and after.