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Holocaust Museum
As I walked towards the entrance of the holocaust museum thinking I was prepared to experience the events of such catastrophic event soon I learned that it was definitely not the case. The first thing that I saw was one of the few scrolls to survive the fury of the Nazi fires when they tried to extinguish the beliefs of the Jews. All the pictures on the walls of people living their life right before Adolf Hitler came into power were so happy, displaying people with feelings and family and love and a beautiful culture to offer the world. The most impacting event that will forever be burned in my mind is that when Hitler had already convinced the German’s that Jews and impure races had to be “dealt” with. The Jews were sent
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The Jews would be suffocated and transported to their own graves when they had been given false information. Later on when the Nazi’s needed more “effective” ways to deal with the minorities the “concentration” camps were created. Again the Jews were taken with false ideas that they were going to live there deported, but instead when they arrived they were put into lines separating the men from the women and children were the “selection” would happen. If a Jew was sent to the right it meant that they were going straight to the ovens to be murdered and if sent to the left it meant that they were selected for labor. Even though people in concentration camps were starved to death and the ones that were still alive weakened, people like Roza Robota still tried to fight back. She was part of a group that sneaked out explosives to bomb the camp. Unfortunately with the help of a half Jew Roza and 4 other brave women were caught and hung in front of the whole …show more content…
We also learned how Hitler used false propaganda that lead to the holocaust and like the person that he was, he committed suicide in 1945. German’s tried to pretend like they didn’t know what was going but with such records that the Nazi’s kept we are able to prove that the Holocaust indeed did happen. Honestly I can’t believe that this happened. To know that there were people like the Nazi’s willing to kill for a man like Adolf Hitler. Where is the humanity? Not just of the soldiers, but of the German civilians the way that they stood there seeing the torture being caused to another human being to children of innocence. Hair of dead people being used as stuffing for mattresses how can sound sleep with a clean conscience knowing that they are sleeping on someone’s hair that was cremated

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