This topic I find so effortlessly to discuss and yet so tough at the same time because the Second World War is a part of history I have always been so intrigued in learning about. Therefore trying to answer the question. How I reconcile the legacy of this particular war? Is difficult because my knowledge of War World II is constantly evolving and before my recent trip to Munich, Germany and the Dachau Concentration Camp my answer to this question would be wholly different. Before these sites, my understandings were only what I had gained from books, documentaries, and in the classroom, and still, none of this knowledge compares to the knowledge I gained during my brief two days in these remarkable places. I say this strongly because until
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Kids and even adults are becoming less and less aware of its existence. This statement said by Mathew Bronfman, who is a board member of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany states “As we get farther away from the actual events, 70-plus years now, it becomes less forefront of what people are talking about or thinking about or discussing or learning.” This statement is beyond true in my opinion. Whereas the decades go by we become so concerned with other things that our knowledge fades from our past and we forget what is truly important. Another statement that I found that touched deep was this statement “Worldwide, the estimated number of living Holocaust survivors has fallen to 400,000, according to the Claims Conference, many of them in their 80s and 90s. And Holocaust remembrance advocates and educators, who agree that no book, film or traditional exhibition can compare to the voice of a survivor, dread the day when none are left to tell their stories.” This to me is somber because I believe that it’s the voice of real survivors and visiting these places that really touch people nowadays because it turns a book into reality and that gets peoples attention. We would hope that we could still learn everything from textbooks, but today there is so much distraction in the world that it takes real interaction to make something real and brought to attention. The use of making these museums more hands-on and using holograms and bringing in real objects of these places is a great way to help keep the remembrance alive. To educate not only the younger generation, but everyone. It is important to be aware of our past and learn from it. I have never been more grateful in my life after walking through Dachau and if more people could experience that they would understand why it is
Kids and even adults are becoming less and less aware of its existence. This statement said by Mathew Bronfman, who is a board member of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany states “As we get farther away from the actual events, 70-plus years now, it becomes less forefront of what people are talking about or thinking about or discussing or learning.” This statement is beyond true in my opinion. Whereas the decades go by we become so concerned with other things that our knowledge fades from our past and we forget what is truly important. Another statement that I found that touched deep was this statement “Worldwide, the estimated number of living Holocaust survivors has fallen to 400,000, according to the Claims Conference, many of them in their 80s and 90s. And Holocaust remembrance advocates and educators, who agree that no book, film or traditional exhibition can compare to the voice of a survivor, dread the day when none are left to tell their stories.” This to me is somber because I believe that it’s the voice of real survivors and visiting these places that really touch people nowadays because it turns a book into reality and that gets peoples attention. We would hope that we could still learn everything from textbooks, but today there is so much distraction in the world that it takes real interaction to make something real and brought to attention. The use of making these museums more hands-on and using holograms and bringing in real objects of these places is a great way to help keep the remembrance alive. To educate not only the younger generation, but everyone. It is important to be aware of our past and learn from it. I have never been more grateful in my life after walking through Dachau and if more people could experience that they would understand why it is