Holocaust Museum Experience

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As the DC Excursion approached I wasn't able to go with my class but the following week I made the trip over to the Holocaust Museum. My first comment as I walked through the doors was “Wow look at the architectural detail” and all my friends, laughed. The employees handed me a little booklet with my new temporary life story to follow as I took my journey through the floors of the museum. I was a little girl with a wealthy family and the perfect life at the moment it all began. But the only outcome I wished for, for her was for her to lie in the of my journey. In my reflection I will tell you about my experience through the museum and how it relates to our discussion on suffering from class. In relation to class, we look upon the Gospel of …show more content…

Jesus then asks the crowd another question, “if you want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” (Luke 9:23) Which means his followers must suffer, just like him. As we continued on to the section Luke 9:43b-48 the people do not understand the definition of suffering, they only saw the happiness part of Jesus’ coming. But he wants them to see that he will have to suffer for their sins, but they still do not understand. This section of Luke relates to when the holocaust was first taking place and you are traveling through the top floor of the museum. People did not see what Hitler was doing at first. The people of Germany only saw the positives in what he was doing, that is, giving Germans more working opportunities and keeping their children away from the bad races of the world. They did not see that Hitler was now beginning to exterminate innocent live; they were blind to what they could be suffering had their situation been different. As you enter the middle floor, you finally see the suffering that these people were experiencing and now knowing the truth that it actually was not happiness but only dreadfulness. Continuing back to our reading in Luke 9: 22-23 they talk

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