The Museum of Tolerance is a good introduction for the average person …show more content…
For this reason, their goal is to have every tour group, and hopefully every visitor, meet a survivor because their generation will not be around much longer and they will need people to carry on their stories and their legacies. Meeting survivors is also their way of making such a horrific and almost unbelievable situation seem more real and relatable. However, the museum does have to generalize Holocaust stories to an extent in order to appeal to audiences who are not educated about the Holocaust and because they cannot possibly tell everyone’s stories because of the limited space and inability to get everyone 's stories. They do attempt to show individual stories though with 70 television screens showing individual testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation in a tree of testimonies, an obvious analogy to the tree of life, along with having a small, enclosed room dedicated to listening to individual testimonies that appeal to that specific