Upon arrival to the museum we were ushered into a lecture hall to hear the speech of a survivor of the Holocaust. When Elizabeth Mann said her first sentence I recognized she was Hungarian from her accent, which immediately …show more content…
Different sized television screens oddly placed in a vertical manner showing a man talking with an annoying attitude about prejudice. Then the two choices of doors to walk through, either prejudice, or not prejudice. The not prejudice did not open, and a lady let us in through the prejudice door, saying that is the only one open, since everybody is prejudice about something. We were each given a picture of a child to later find out how the Holocaust changed their lives. The group was guided through what looked like a typical German street in the 1940’s, with store windows and radio announcements, highlighting Hitler as a great leader. Videos of the order of the German army seemed immense, the shooting down of people falling in their pre-dug graves, and pictures of starved bony bodies added to the increasing feelings of disgust, and grief-struck we felt. Footage of German school children brainwashed with anti-Semitic teachings, cheering for Hitler as if a great ruler, civilians picking up guns and shooting innocent Jews made me realize the immense manipulating power of hate and the devastation destruction it is capable of carrying