The Holocaust was an event that marked history as the most devastating moment for many Jews, as they were put into concentration camps so that they could be tortured and annihilated. I went to the Holocaust Museum on April 27th, where I learned lots of information about the Holocaust and what Adolf Hitler did to the Jews and other victims of the Holocaust.
In the beginning of our tour, my tour group and I were waiting for the elevator doors to open, so we could enter the exhibit. I remember feeling a little anxious to see the exhibit, as I knew it might be graphic. When the elevator doors opened, and everyone started pushing one another to try to get in before the door closed, I felt a little claustrophobic. This is because I thought about how that was how the
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There, I was amazed at how symbolic the exhibit was. For example, In one of Daniel’s diary entries about how his family had to move into the ghettos, the air was very cold and the paintings on the wall were dark, to symbolize how the Jews had lost so much in the Holocaust. This was a very powerful experience for me, as it made me realize how brutal the Holocaust was.
In the end of the tour, I saw the memorial they had constructed. In it there were benches around a fire that underneath it, contained earth that had been gathered from death camps, concentration camps, and ghettos. This really touched me, and made me realize how lucky I truly am to have a safe life.
The visit to the Holocaust Museum is an experience that will stay with me for a lifetime. It was always so hard to believe all the suffering and death that the Jewish people had to experience was real, and visiting the museum made it believable to me. The visit helped me to understand that something like the Holocaust should never happen again, and that to prevent it from happening, we must allow ourselves to acknowledge how terrible the Holocaust