Life In Shadows

The website link I chose was, Life in Shadows: Hidden Children of the Holocaust. It is a part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website. From the moment you enter, this website really makes you think. The opening page is a dramatic all black with these statistics; “In 1939 nine million Jews lived in what would soon be Nazi territories. In 1945 six million Jews are dead, one million being children.” I thought that was a clever entrance into the actual site, it most definitely got me thinking. The site itself is built of different sections that you can click on and read more about.
The site offers an artifact gallery that you can look at as well. The gallery has several artifacts that show the history of the Holocaust and are laid out in an almost 3D fashion. …show more content…
There are real stories from the hidden that are shared, along with interactive ways that they tell that story and show pictures. I like this most of about the website, because it allows you to move the pictures and different things on the screen to learn the story about each person. It makes you think of them as a true human being and gives you a tiny glimpse into what they left behind and how they must have been so terribly scared of being discovered. A weakness of the website, if I had to pick one, would be it can be a little confusing at first to navigate. Other than that, I believe it is an extremely impressive site that you can learn many things from. I spent quite some time exploring the site because it had many things to look at and kept my interest high with the true stories and accounts. It was a fun website to be on and very informative, but at the same time made me feel very sad (I actually stated tearing up reading the story about Estera). Overall, the website moved me, something I did not expect, and I would highly recommend