Ever since I first started learning about World II and the Holocaust, I was interested in visiting the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D. C. Reflection.
This past May, I studied abroad to Israel for the Comparative Religious thoughts course with the department of Jewish studies. During one of our visits during my two-week study abroad, we visited Yad Vashem, which is Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. It was a very beautiful detailed museum and had a great setup. The children memorial was very sad because innocent of all ages were killed because they were Jewish. These children could have grown up to business owners, doctors, politicians, or other active members in our society.
When I visited the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem known as Yad Vashem, it really gave a better visual and up close look of what the Holocaust composed of. After reading many literatures and studying about World II and the Holocaust. After reading Schindler's List, Diary of Anne Frank, and Night by Elie Wiesel, showed that this was a very depressing and evil time in our history for the European Jewish. Racism and discrimination had driven vicious acts of hatred overtime from the Egyptians enslaving the Hebrews, to slavery happening in our country, and the Holocaust, which Hitler and the Nazi party was in charge of killing over six million Jewish people.
The Holocaust, which almost annihilated the European population. The Nazi Party of Germany, between 1939 and 1945, committed genocide of over six million Jews. Adolf Hitler, Nazi Dictator, wanted to eliminate Jews and other groups of people that he felt were either racially lower or politically dangerous to his world power plan. Hitler and the Nazi party used concentration camps and gas chambers as solutions to imprison and kill the Jewish population of Europe. The Nazi did not just kill the men but also the women and children as well.
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