Friday, October 16, 2015

DAY THREE - Holocaust Memorial Museum


Quote from the "We Were Neighbors" exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Toy soldiers used to encourage children's' interest in serving the Nazi party.

Section on the artists who supported the Nazis.


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  1. The Holocaust Memorial was by far my favorite of all the museums. Every part of it was extremely moving and intense. I felt sad walking through it but mostly angry. How could this have happened? It was hard to really sit and reflect because there were so many areas I wanted to see. I took my time in David's house, walking through and reading all his diary entries. The sound effects and each room was that was interactive in some way made me feel like I was actually walking through his life as it was happening. How did people just sit back and let these things happen? I will never understand.
    Celia

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    1. David's house was a nice addition to the exhibit, seeing it from a child's perspective definitely was a new/ different take on it.

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    2. I definitely agree, this exhibit stirred up so many feelings. It is so hard to comprehend genocide and why people do what they do....

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  2. This was the museum I was most excited to go see, and although I thought it was pretty impressive, it wasn't as intense as I thought it would be, (although, I do know quite about the Holocaust from personal research). I liked the museum, don't get me wrong, I just already knew a lot of the information that was presented. The one part I noticed that I brought up to the group after going through the museum was that the longer you were in there the smaller spaces got and the air circulation seemed to be getting less and less. I thought it was an interesting aspect to make part in the museum because, although they weren't nearly as extreme, that's what they would have experienced as prisoners of war in the concentration camps.

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    1. I felt like a prisoner when they shoved us in the elevator. Very small space. I get what you mean about the rooms getting smaller. There were so many people there that is was hard to move around. My history classes only touched on the subject of the holocaust and I actually wrote a paper about it in high school but I still didn't know a lot of the information they had especially about the handicapped. I read that hospitals killed so many handicapped children even after they were ordered to stop. Heart breaking :(
      Celia

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    2. The elevator was tough, when they herded us into it I kind of felt like cattle. I understand were your coming from Katlynn although I didn't know all of the information there I wish that there wasn't so many people so I could have taken my time and read through everything that I wanted to without feeling like I was in the way of everyone else.

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  3. This museum was extremely detailed and i felt like if someone had never heard of the Holocaust, they would be able to walk out of the museum with a thorough understanding of what happened. I was happy that their were parts of the museum that highlighted the mistakes that America made during the Holocaust, like turning away Jewish refugees. However, there was a part in Daniel's story that America and "other countries" stopped the Nazis. This disappointed me because it put the emphasis on America as being the good guys and everyone else was just supporting us, but I could just be reaching.

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  4. This was probably the roughest part because the reality of what took place was shattering. I remember tears falling as I processed how hard it must have been for the mothers to walk into the gas chambers with their children knowing they would never come out.

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    1. This was a very difficult memorial to walk through. I too felt very sad and helpless while looking at the miniature sculptures of the people walking into the gas chambers. So terrifying. This memorial was very sad and the visual aids helped a lot because there were so many people, it was hard to read every word.

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    2. In the video at the end of the museum, one of the survivors talked about how her mother would always give her food instead of eating it herself. Her mom starved to death do that the daughter could eat. That was hard to listen to.

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    3. In the video at the end of the museum, one of the survivors talked about how her mother would always give her food instead of eating it herself. Her mom starved to death do that the daughter could eat. That was hard to listen to.

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  5. The Holocaust memorial museum brought out so much heartache walking into the building. Seeing the shoes and the burners was definitely the hardest part for me. The neighbors exhibit was also hard, to see how their own friends would turn their backs on them and turn them in.
    Emily

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  6. By far the hardest part of the Holocaust Museum was seeing the piles of shoes that lined one of the exhibits. Also Davids house with all of the noises that would fill a happy house at the beginning and seeing how their lives changed dramatically starting with the rise of the Nazi Party.

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