Holocaust Museums and Memorials Sydney Dillmon Per. 4
05/1/2017
Sydney Dillmon
Mrs. Stewart
English 8 Hons
May 1, 2017
Holocaust Museums and Memorials
If you travel anywhere in the world, you will most likely find a museum or a memorial that is in place to remember something or someone. The Holocaust was a world-wide devastation that affected the world as a whole. There are museums and memorials dedicated to the loss of the Holocaust, all over the world. These are just a few of the “well-known” memorials and museums that are dedicated to the Holocaust.
One of most famous holocaust memorial/museum for Americans is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. To help make awareness of this memorial, Congress established the United
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The memorial and film presentation, as well as the walking tours of Bergen-Belsen, are free of charge. At Bergen-Belsen, there is a newly opened Documentation Center, which houses photographs, documents, and films exploring the history of the camp. A guided walk through the Soviet Prisoner of War Cemetery, is also included in the tour of Bergen-Belsen.The tour is a guided program that includes the permanent exhibitions at the memorial museum. The last tour segment of Bergen-Belsen takes visitors to the railway ramp than was used to deliver prisoners to the camp. Today, the grounds of the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, makes up a cemetery with various sculptures commemorating the ones who suffered and died at the Bergen …show more content…
The memorial is a place of memory and remembrance of the up to six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, is a 4.7 acre site, with more than 2,500 geometrically arranged concrete pillars. All of the concrete pillars at The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, are slightly different in size. Hitler's bunker is 200 yards away, from the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
Sachsenhausen was in many ways one of the Third Reich. At Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp the main gate still reads, “Work Makes You Free.” “The tours of Sachsenhausen includes the parade grounds, punishment cells, the camp hospital, as well as the barracks where Jewish prisoners were held.” (Lee Grayson) Station Z, a formal execution area, and a crematorium are also part of the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp memorial
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In this paper, we will explore the camp that is Bergen-Belsen and its workers, the camp system, liberation and trial. The notorious detention camp, Bergen-Belsen, was constructed in 1940 and “was near Hanover in northwest Germany, located between the villages Bergen and Belsen” (jewishvirtuallibrary.org), hence the name. Originally, the “camp was designed to hold 10,000 prisoners” (jewishvirtuallibrary.org) but, Bergen-Belsen rapidly grew. “In the first eighteen months of existence, there were already five satellite camps.” (holocaustresearchproject.org).
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "The Holocaust." Holocaust Encyclopedia. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 10 June 2013. Web. 25 Jan. 2014.
The Holocaust is considered the largest genocide of our entire world, killing more than 600,000,000 Jewish people during the years of 1933-1945. The memories and history that have filled our lives that occurred during the Holocaust are constantly remembered around the world. Many populations today “think” that constant reminders allow for us to become informed and help diminish the hatred for other races still today. These scholars believe that by remembering the Holocaust, you are able to become knowledgeable and learn how to help prevent this from happening again. Since the Holocaust in a sense impacted the entire human race and history of the world, there are traces of the Holocaust all across our culture today. As I continue to remember the victims of this tragic time period I think of all the ways that our world remembers the Holocaust in today’s society. Through spreading the word, works of media and memorials across the world, I am continually reminded of the tragedy that occurred.
“Concentration camps (Konzentrationslager; abbreviated as KL or KZ) were an integral feature of the regime in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). The living conditions in these camps were absolutely horrible. The amount of people being kept in one space, amongst being unsanitary, was harsh on the body. “A typical concentration camp consisted of barracks that were secured from escape by barbed wire, watchtowers and guards.
Holocaust Memorial Museum is because of how easily democracy can fail and its seemingly endless consequences. Seen before with the rise of the Soviet Union near the end of the first World War, Germany and Italy had democratically elected leaders, Hitler and Mussolini, turn on their countries and start to wipe out any “inferior races” in their increasingly imperialist homelands. This included, but was not limited to, Jewish people, disabled people, and LGBTQ+ members. In WWII, despite in previous wars the line between “Good Guy” and “Bad Guy” were reasonably blurred, the Axis Power’s ethnic cleansing and other clear war crimes allowed them to be easily distinguishable as the “Bad Guys.” There are no justifications for the war crimes Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperialist Japan have committed. Historians debate time and time again how preventable the Second World War really was, but no matter the debate, the end result is always the same; 50 to 80 million victims no longer walk the Earth. What could have been the next Nobel Prize winner or the discoverer of the cure for cancer, none mattered. As seen prior, the atrocities committed by Germany, Italy, and Japan were due to the state of Europe. Thus theorizing what would be if Hitler would be put down as a child is ineffective; someone rising up to establish order in Germany, Italy, and failing states in Europe was
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “The Holocaust.” Holocaust Encyclopedia, last modified June 10, 2013, http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005425.
The Holocaust was an extremely horrific period of history. Millions were killed and lost everything, including money, family, and dignity. However, it has taught many lessons. We can study it today to make sure nothing like it ever happens again.
Engelhardt, I. (2002). A Topography of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust at Dachau and Buchenwald in comparison with Auschwitz, Yad Vashem and Washington DC. Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 10 June 2013. Web. The Web. The Web.
The Holocaust Memorial Museum was built to honor those who were directly affected by the Holocaust. “Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never” Elie Wiesel (“Holocaust Encyclopedia”). While some believe the building of the museum was a political act for President Carter, others were very optimistic of the outcome. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was a marvelous achievement for this country and those who dedicated their time and effort to this wonderful building. This museum not only has an interesting history and opening, but exhibits inside are nothing in comparison to the statistics of this grand foundation.
Auschwitz I was built in 1940, as a site for Polish political prisoners. This was the original camp and administrative center. The prisoners’ living conditions were inhumane in every respect, and the death rate was quite high. Auschwitz I was not meant ...
Throughout my middle school years, my teachers taught me and my class about the Holocaust. We learned how devastating it was and how it affected people from all over the world. I can remember my seventh grade teacher reading The Diary of Anne Frank to us, and how stunned I was upon hearing what her and her family had to endure. She also let us watch the movie based on the book, which gave us an even more apparent outlook on their lives. In the seventh grade, our class went to the Holocaust Museum in El Paso, Texas, and honestly, it was the most real thing I have ever experienced. There was so much information and situations that seemed alarming and undeniably real. The Holocaust Museum serves as a reminder to several people about the events
One thing that the museum taught me about the holocaust is how much power words have. An example of words having power is how hitler got so many supporters from just saying what he had to say. People were killing others all because one man said something that persuaded them to do so. This shows that words can completely change how you think and what you do. At the museum, the tour guides pointed out that there were posters posted throughout the streets of simply hitlers face, reminding people what he thought of the jews and what he wanted
When the holocaust is mentioned, large numbers of people think of a traumatic time that shows the death of many people and there is no doubt that it doesn’t cross people's minds whether Holocaust should be remembered. This event is left in the back of minds and forgotten, but needs to be remembered for many reasons. Holocaust is a horrific event that we should remember in order to honor the victims who had perished, to prevent history from repeating itself, and to bring awareness of the existing threats