Personal Narrative: My Trip To The Holocaust Museum

"Don't worry. Everything will be fine." I assured her as a bend to whisper in her ear. I pray my words of comfort are correct.

A central role in this judicial proceeding was played by eyewitnesses, who during their testimonies created a very intense and emotional atmosphere in the courtroom. In this trial testified 44 male and 25 female eyewitnesses, among them also Lithuanian Jews, who survived the mass atrocities during the Holocaust. Historian Faraldo claimed that the antifascist memorial policy allowed “different feelings and narratives to be expressed.” Similarly, historian Lisa Kirschenbaum noticed that these war narratives “drew on experiences remembered by individuals while providing those who lived through the war with compelling and uplifting frameworks for narrating – and therefore remembering – their own experiences.” Many eyewitnesses, who saw the scene of a crime, and survivors, including those who crawled out from the death pits, could remember in the courtroom very exactly the names,

The Holocaust is looked at in lots of different ways, but in Whitwell,Tennessee the middle schoolers looked into the Holocaust in a very unique way. The small town of Whitwell, only containing a total of 1,600 people only having five African Americans and one mexican. It may have come off as a racial town when really, they were a very tight knit community. The project started when the students had no idea what six million looked like. The students decided to collect paperclips, they were easy to collect and also had a meaning to the Holocaust. The paper clip was made in Norway, the Norwegians wore the paper clip as a symbol of all the people in the Holocaust,because they were not able to speak out against the Holocaust. At first, the project

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.

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.

Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum was written by Edward T. Linenthal. This book was published by the Columbia University Press in New York. The book was copyrighted in 1995 and then once again in 2001. This book also has 336 pages.

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.

I stood there mentally preparing myself for what was coming my way. As my hands grasped in my pockets there was a faint sound of a roll call. The monotone voice was saying everyone’s name but my attention was focused elsewhere. The sound of my name snapped me back into reality as I quietly said yes.

The Holocaust was a very traumatic event in history. Every year in school from about middle school onward students learn specifically about Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party’s cruel treatment of the Jewish culture and people during World War II. The same general knowledge is given to us from middle school up until the ending our high school history careers. We are taught to believe that Adolf Hitler was a corrupt man, who sought control of Germany in the 1930’s. Even though we are given background information on this event, and there are things being told to us, no one knows what actually occurred during this time, except those who lived through it. In the book Night published by Elie Wiesel, he explains the things that happened to his family and the people in his community named Sighet before, during, and after the Holocaust. There is more than what meets the eye to this occurrence. No one sees the bigger picture when it comes to this event because of the fact that such a tragedy occurred in the first place. Although the Holocaust was a very unfortunate event, the Holocaust did benefit the United States in a plethora of different ways. Without the Holocaust, World War II would have never happened, and World War II brought countless positives attributes to America. A myriad of things came out of World War II. For example, women earned the right to attain jobs because of the war. Also, America became a global power due to the fact that the Allies (United States, Britain,

Since I was a little girl I have always wanted to travel the world, so if I ever got a ticket to go somewhere I’d choose Germany. The reason being is because I love learning new things about the history of the Holocaust it’s one of my top history interests. I’ve always wanted to visit the Berlin wall and visit other old beautiful places. The person I would want to take on this trip with me is probably my best friend Maria because she has a big interest on the Holocaust too. Since we were little we’d both say that when we grew up we were going to travel the world together and this would be our first choice.

The Holocaust has always been something that fascinates me immensely. Throughout my life I have taken three different courses on it, visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., and read several books, including the Diary of Anne Frank, on the topic, so it is safe to say I have some knowledge of The Holocaust. In my opinion, The Holocaust is the most horrific thing to happen within the last 100 years. To think that only 84 years ago the killing of nearly 6 million Jewish people occurred makes me nauseous.

The brisk wind rustled the leaves and the branches murmured. The morning had been chilly and opaque, with a curtain of drizzle sweeping across the plains. The decaying morality and despair of humanity has affected the weather, or have I just ceased being able to see colour?

I recently attended the Holocaust Survivor conference and listened to the testimony of Eva Mozes Kohr. She recounts the horrific memory of being placed in the Auschwitz concentration camp and her vivid memory of the selection platform, the last place that she saw her family. "A renowned public speaker and author, Kohr and her twin sister, Miriam, were the only members of their family to survive the horrors of Auschwitz and the genetic experimentation of Dr. Josef Mengele in 1944-45. " (UCM Headliner).

50 years ago, my family was taken from our home and torn apart. It has been 39 years since my husband died and I had lost my only child forever. It has been 38 years since I became a survivor of the holocaust.

Behind barricase high enough that children cannot see are images and artifacts docuemtning the horrific, and medical experiments carried out on Jews prisoners. Another room of survivors telling what their live was like in the camps and many shoes were left behind to those who were gassed there. There were millions of shoes that were shown one side in the glass. The Jews took their shoes off before they went into the gas chambers. I cannot imainge how these Jew must feel when they had no idea what was going to happen next. Those will be permanant memories. Auschwitz was the most feared of