A Visit to the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Wednesday, April 18 6-8 PM
In honor of Holocaust Remembrance (April 8-26) we will visit the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
The museum is a very short walk from here. We can meet in the lobby at 6 PM and continue to the second floor. The museum's collection contains more than 25,000 items relating to modern Jewish history and the Holocaust.
This topic relates directly to the novel Lord of the Flies, and it is especially important because of a new study which shows that many millennials (people born between 1982 and 2004) don't know about the Auschwitz death camp and the true number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
Scott Simon from National Public Radio (NPR) did a short story on this topic. Listen here.
In the comments section below, tell me about something you learned about the Holocaust at the museum after our visit.
In the comments section below, tell me about something you learned about the Holocaust at the museum after our visit.
19 comments:
Last night I was struck by how many countries (and religious leaders) were complicit (helped) with Hitler in rounding up Jews, and therefore making the Holocaust possible. As we read this novel about human nature I realize the importance of standing up for what I believe and defending others who are being mistreated.
It reminds me of a quotation by Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) was a prominent Protestant pastor who emerged as an outspoken public critic of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
The story is long, with many details, but in my opinion I think this Holocaust were interesting and sad. I learned about “ghettos”. The ghettos were a place to concentrate for deportation of Jews. There were many along of Europe. In those places the Jews had many shortcomings (hungry, illness and cruelty to which they were subjected). Purpose was death to all the Jews. Nowadays they are struggling to find new and varied ways to preserve ancient traditions.
Unfortunately I missed this class, but I read about Holocaust tragedy before. It was horrible times and not only German people were guilty in genocide. A lot of people from European countries helped Hitler army to execute Jews. Part of them hated Jews, part of them wanted to own their property, part of them were afraid to help Jews. Also I learned that genocide is not only execution of Jews. A lot of Gipsy, Poles, Slovenes were killed by ethnic criteria.
Marina V.
This visit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage wasn’t my first one but it was very symbolic for me as my home country celebrated 70th years of independence.
I learned more about the holocaust effects the years after the war and a lot about the world different nations reaction to that terrible tragedy.
I decided to attach a link for a short video for all of you to watch and see the wonder of a new country that against all statistic and with no resources became a success story.
http://www.aish.com/h/iid/Israel-Defying-the-Odds.html?s=feat
I am so sorry, I could not attend this class. Nevertheless, I familiar with this theme. During the end of 30-es and first half of 40-es of the last century Nazi Germany with their collaborators systematically murdered people by ethnic criteria. Most of them were Jewish (about 6 million). I was always concerned with the question: how was it possible to turn people's minds and inspire them that Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, etc., are to blame for all the troubles?
Something that I learned in the museum last night was part of the Jewish culture is for the most part based on the Old Testament. I learned how they sacrificed everything for love of God. Also something interesting for me was to see that in my country ( Dominican Republic) today they use many things that they used. I learned the importance of maintaining our culture no matter what Country we are in.
Before I visit the museum,i know jewish is a very clever race. After i visit i know more about them. They have been slaughtered. They have their own language,their own school,but they don't have their country. It's so especial in the world. I am interesting in Jewish now.
After visited the museum,I have learned more about the human nature.Since acient age,the war always existed,people keep fighting to satify their disires.
How large a civilization is, therefore how much violence is needed to protect it.As we learned in the meseum, after the holocaust they even couldn't admit their own nationality,it was horrible nightmare for them.My final conclusion is there are two reasons caused this holocaust:religious and economic reasons.
In the holocaust museum, I learned, that the entire Jewish Community (200,000 people) were expelled from Spain in 1492 because of the Spanish Inquisition and my country (Ottoman Empire in those days) wellcomed them. I learned also, that my country Turkey saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust. I am very proud of this part of my history.
Asli Yurek
After I visited this museum, I learned that war really will cause lots people in trouble because I saw a video in this museum showed that children lost their families during Holocaust and others terrible things.
It was a very interesting and informative visit to the museum. When I was in school we studied a lot about World War II, and my grandfather was a soldier in that war.
It was more than 70 years ago. Hitler invaded Poland and World War 2 began. Newsreels in this country showed the bombings and the invasions, but the one side of the war that we didn't see, until it was all over, was the attempted annihilation of the Jews. Hitler was bent on the destruction of every last Jew in Europe. Even after the war was lost, the killings continued... at an accelerated pace. What was found when the allies liberated the concentration camps was beyond belief. If not for photographic evidence and the testimonies of survivors and liberators, many would have continued to disbelieve. 29 million died during World War II. 11 million were civilians that were exterminated by the Nazis because they didn't fit the Aryan plan. 6 million were Jews who were killed simply because they.
After I visited the Museum of Jewish Heritage, I have learned more about traditions of Jewish community and how their festivities are about familiar union.
I also saw testimonies, pictures and some personal objects of people who lived that terrible tragedy. I felt sad and embarrassed of how human beings could attack their peers. I believe none race, gender, religion belief or political party makes us different of others.
I visited this museum for the first time. I knew a lot about the holocaust still from school, but this visit to the museum gave me even more information about this terrible tragedy. This museum are created to remember history and never repeat mistakes.
I wonder why Hitler killed the Jews, in my opinion, there are five reasons:
1>Religion--Judaism does not recognize Jesus as the Son of God.
2>Political --Jews engage in communist movements
3>Economic--The European banking about 30%-40% in the hand of the Jews
4>Culture --There were about 40%-50% of Jews were doctors, lawyers, judges, professors in European.
5>The Jews did not have their own independent country at the time until Israel was established.
Before,I watched films like Schindler's List (1993),La Vita es bella (1997) The pianist (2002), they left me annoyed, disturb and very sad and for days I was thinking about this human horror for days. This experience to saw this films don't have any comparison when I saw at the museum personal belonging like uniforms, luggage and pictures from this human victims from other humans ....How does was possible this situation happened?. I felt all my solidarity with this people that was suffering this genocide,but I want to tell, they aren't only them pass for this horror, because in our humanity history, we can easily find many of them, like the Armenian Catholics in 1915, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1995) and special all my indigenous people that died in the process of conquest of America.
I my reflection, I think that wasn't easy for the other part, to live with the stigmatization of cruelty for the new generations of the Germans. And the victims for this tragedy today, should be more consistent with the Palestinian people, I don't want to think they are the next human victims.
It was a lot of very good historical information before, during and after the WW2. How began all the Nazis movement, the horror of the war and how Jewish have been incorporated into such quantity of countries
I know nothing about Holocaust before i joined this class . After the touring at the museum , i learned more about the story related to Holocaust. Nazi did the savagery to the Jewish.
It was a sad and informative trip. We know the Jewish's culture from the museum. And also about how many Jewish did Nazi kill in World War II, how terrify thing that Jewis people experienced.
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