What were your thoughts about Tuesday’s trip?Did anything surprise you? What should the world have done about the Nazis?What were your feelings about the war memorials?
Today’s trip to the Holocaust museum really moved me. It is one thing to read about it at school and see pictures here and there, but to actually stand in front of the clothes and shoes they wore, or to stand in the train they were transported to the camps in, can really move any one. I can say that everything surprised me. There are so many things I never knew about it until the trip, like how other nations refused to be a safe place for the Jews and how quickly the Germans took over, it was only a matter of a few years. Everyone could have done a lot more to end it before it turned out the way it did. For one, other countries could have accepted the Jews into their country so they wouldn’t be slaughtered. Also, it was them against the whole world. Everyone knew it was wrong but the Nazis, but no one did anything about it, and that what really gets me. What gets me even more is that it is still happening to this day, like Rwanda. The memorials were heart breaking to say the least. No one deserves to die in such a way.
Tuesday's trip to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. was an eye-opening experiece. As soon as you step into the museum, you are given a pamphlet which tells a short story of a person's life during this time period. As myself and my group opened our pamphlets, it was touching to find that while the person I was given survived, some of the others did not. I appreciated that they paid respects to the survivors as well as those who died in this tragic event of our world's history. While we are learning about these events in history class, it does not compare to seeing the videos, pictures and real artifacts from the Holocaust, which, in a way, brought it to life. I was taken aback mostly by the videos of Hitler himself, and of the thousands of people who would come to see him speak and cheer for him.
The world could have done so much more to avoid the shocking death toll of the Holocaust. More than anything, I believe that the world should have been less indifferent. While millions of Jewish people, as well as other cultures and races, were being slaughtered, most of the world turned its back on these tragic events out of pure cowardice. When you read the novel "Night", it is apparent that the United States wondered whether they should step in, and whether what was happening was right or wrong--whether the deaths of millions of people was right or wrong.
As did the Holocaust Museum, the war memorials brought those events and the people involved to life. However, to walk through and see the hundreds of names simply written on a wall seems inadequete; these people lose their lives to fight for their country, and all we see is a simple name. Overall, the amount of names had a great impact on me. We often hear of the death tolls in the War on Iraq, and when I recall all of the wars that have went on in our history, and will inevitably continue to go on, it is devastating that the lives of these people are just considered another number, or just another name on a list.
I think that trip to the holocaust museum was not only moving, but also eye opening. It is a way to add faces and a personal experience to such a tragic event. Since middle school I've been learning about the holocaust, but this trip made me realize just how devastating this even was. This trip showed me not only the plight of the Jews during this genocide, but the plight of many people who were considered "inferior" by Hitler's standards. I also got to experience the many different parts of the holocaust. The plight of the victims was not just during the era of the concentration camps, but it was during the forced inhabitance of the ghettos, the death marches, and the harassment and violence the Jewish people faced before Hitler's true rise to power. This trip is one of the most touching experiences I've had during my high school career, and something I'll never forget.
I thought that the world just sat back and watched as Germany slowly killed thousand of innocent people. Everything surprised me, how could humans just watch as people were tortured, as children were slaughter like lambs. How could you live your life, when you know that so many are dieing for the things they couldn’t control. The Jews had no control over wither they were born Jewish or not. Or how people could be so raciest on such little matter, like wither your hair is blond, and your eyes are bleu. What difference does it make? When the world found out about the inhumanity they should have stopped it, what happened to the fighting Americans you could not even stand the sight of the innocent being oppressed? We should have stopped it before it got out of hand, we should have done so much more. My thoughts after I saw the war memorials was how does the world not know by now the mistakes it makes, and it just seems that things continue to repeat themselves, and we continue to make the same mistakes. When will we learn!
Overall, I thought it was a great trip. I think you should definitely do it again next year. Its something others should get to see too. What surprised me what the real-ness of it all. Hollywood’s way of showing the Holocaust is what we grow up knowing, but to actually see things from the time period is eye-opening. Also the box car seemed pretty powerful. As for the Nazis, personally, I think someone should have stopped it while it was growing. The thought of nobody noticing any sign of this before seems kind of weird. It shouldn’t have gotten to that level of intensity. The war memorials were a little less powerful to me personally, but still had just as much meaning. I really liked the style of them, especially the WWII Memorial. I think the fountains add a nice touch that just calms the surrounding atmosphere.
I didn't get to go on the trip this past week. I hear that it was amazing. I herd that it was a great trip to go on, and I wish to go sometime in the future.
I thought the the trip was great. I learn about the Holocaust from books and shows in the past but this was something different and had to me a depper meaning. To see the cloths, the train carts and the viedos was eye opening to me. See pictures and movies is one thing but to see actuale artifacts the places they had to sleep and the daily things they had to use touch me in a way i nevered been touched before. I think the world should of stop the Nazis sooner as they were coming to power. The world kind of stood by and watched and when they decided to do something there was a lot of damage already done that could of been stop sooner. I thought the war memorials were touching but also sad that so many people died. I had family members fight in WWII and the Vitamin war so they had some meaning to me.
The whole trip last Tuesday to me was the most depressing trip of my life, but it really put things into perspective. Instead of just learning about it in a book, you were surrounded by it all, as if taking a stroll through some of the darker parts in history; being able to actually see the events that led to the war and the ones transcribed during the war as if it were going on with each step you take. The most surprising thing to me was the fact that other countries knew of the rise of Germany's nationalism and were aware of there actions towards the jews of trying to kick them out. But no one did anything. Once others started to get involved, Germany already had camps running and killing all over Poland and other countries. The world should have set them inplace before they ever got the chance to carryout there actions. The people saw the S.S. army being built up stronger and stronger but no one did anything. The war memorials were grand in stature but one must really know of the war to know how high it stands. The memorials serve there purpose. That is for others to remember there sacrafices and duties to their country.
The fact that the monstrosity occured is the fault of the entire world. Nationalism is good for the morale of a country. This is is one of situations in which nationalism is pushed entirely too far. As a result millions of lives of humanbeings, like you and I, were taken. Those very few souls that weren't taken were beaten down until they wished they were dead. This was one of the eye-opening experiences I have ever had. It's a shame I was unable to read every passage and watch every video in the museum.
What the world should have done was stop the Nazis from gaining so much power, instead of participating in a policy of either isolationism or indifference. The world's leader's should have cared more about the lives of countless human beings.
Like the Holocaust Museum, the War Memorials, although great in stature, are inadequate in relation to amount of lives lost to the various events. However, unlike the Holocaust Museum which was utterly depressing, the Memorials are examples of nationalism being shown in a positive way. These memorials are the best ways we believe we can honor those that died for the life of our country.
Personally, the best part of the trip was interview room were you heard the actual words and voices of some the jewish survivors. In that room, you could hear their voicesand understand their thoughts mlre vividly. A lot of things that I learned wasn't through the facts written down but the abstract real things such as the display that held the shoes of a small of the jews that went through the holocaust. When you think about it, those shoe only represented 10% of the millions of uknown faces that suffered. In my opinion, the shoes held a deep meaning because they were the remnant remains of the people who will never tell their tales; their shoes speak for them.
I also thought the monuments were amazing! I got a great excercise running up to see lincoln; more stairs than Rocky could do. I thoguht the lake on the way up to Lincoln was gross but the memorials were touching. To be able to see the names of so many men who went into those wars with a common goal was touching.
Everything about the trip was good except that blessed [kosher] food.
Sleep on the bus was Bomb! Wouldnt trade that for anything.
The trip to the museum really was a learning experience. I've always known bits and pieces about the holocaust but never in my wildest dreams did I think people could be that cruel and merciless to one another. It was a very surprising and eye opening reality check. It's ashame that the world stood bye and watched this happen. If money and resources were involved I bet America would've been the first country running to the rescue. I didn't quite feel the same about the war memorials like I felt about the museum. It was a scary thought to think that every last one of the those names were of people who died in a war.
Today’s trip to the Holocaust museum really moved me. It is one thing to read about it at school and see pictures here and there, but to actually stand in front of the clothes and shoes they wore, or to stand in the train they were transported to the camps in, can really move any one. I can say that everything surprised me. There are so many things I never knew about it until the trip, like how other nations refused to be a safe place for the Jews and how quickly the Germans took over, it was only a matter of a few years. Everyone could have done a lot more to end it before it turned out the way it did. For one, other countries could have accepted the Jews into their country so they wouldn’t be slaughtered. Also, it was them against the whole world. Everyone knew it was wrong but the Nazis, but no one did anything about it, and that what really gets me. What gets me even more is that it is still happening to this day, like Rwanda. The memorials were heart breaking to say the least. No one deserves to die in such a way.
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ReplyDeleteTuesday's trip to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. was an eye-opening experiece. As soon as you step into the museum, you are given a pamphlet which tells a short story of a person's life during this time period. As myself and my group opened our pamphlets, it was touching to find that while the person I was given survived, some of the others did not. I appreciated that they paid respects to the survivors as well as those who died in this tragic event of our world's history. While we are learning about these events in history class, it does not compare to seeing the videos, pictures and real artifacts from the Holocaust, which, in a way, brought it to life. I was taken aback mostly by the videos of Hitler himself, and of the thousands of people who would come to see him speak and cheer for him.
ReplyDeleteThe world could have done so much more to avoid the shocking death toll of the Holocaust. More than anything, I believe that the world should have been less indifferent. While millions of Jewish people, as well as other cultures and races, were being slaughtered, most of the world turned its back on these tragic events out of pure cowardice. When you read the novel "Night", it is apparent that the United States wondered whether they should step in, and whether what was happening was right or wrong--whether the deaths of millions of people was right or wrong.
As did the Holocaust Museum, the war memorials brought those events and the people involved to life. However, to walk through and see the hundreds of names simply written on a wall seems inadequete; these people lose their lives to fight for their country, and all we see is a simple name. Overall, the amount of names had a great impact on me. We often hear of the death tolls in the War on Iraq, and when I recall all of the wars that have went on in our history, and will inevitably continue to go on, it is devastating that the lives of these people are just considered another number, or just another name on a list.
I think that trip to the holocaust museum was not only moving, but also eye opening. It is a way to add faces and a personal experience to such a tragic event. Since middle school I've been learning about the holocaust, but this trip made me realize just how devastating this even was. This trip showed me not only the plight of the Jews during this genocide, but the plight of many people who were considered "inferior" by Hitler's standards. I also got to experience the many different parts of the holocaust. The plight of the victims was not just during the era of the concentration camps, but it was during the forced inhabitance of the ghettos, the death marches, and the harassment and violence the Jewish people faced before Hitler's true rise to power. This trip is one of the most touching experiences I've had during my high school career, and something I'll never forget.
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I thought that the world just sat back and watched as Germany slowly killed thousand of innocent people. Everything surprised me, how could humans just watch as people were tortured, as children were slaughter like lambs. How could you live your life, when you know that so many are dieing for the things they couldn’t control. The Jews had no control over wither they were born Jewish or not. Or how people could be so raciest on such little matter, like wither your hair is blond, and your eyes are bleu. What difference does it make? When the world found out about the inhumanity they should have stopped it, what happened to the fighting Americans you could not even stand the sight of the innocent being oppressed? We should have stopped it before it got out of hand, we should have done so much more. My thoughts after I saw the war memorials was how does the world not know by now the mistakes it makes, and it just seems that things continue to repeat themselves, and we continue to make the same mistakes. When will we learn!
ReplyDeleteOverall, I thought it was a great trip. I think you should definitely do it again next year. Its something others should get to see too. What surprised me what the real-ness of it all. Hollywood’s way of showing the Holocaust is what we grow up knowing, but to actually see things from the time period is eye-opening. Also the box car seemed pretty powerful. As for the Nazis, personally, I think someone should have stopped it while it was growing. The thought of nobody noticing any sign of this before seems kind of weird. It shouldn’t have gotten to that level of intensity. The war memorials were a little less powerful to me personally, but still had just as much meaning. I really liked the style of them, especially the WWII Memorial. I think the fountains add a nice touch that just calms the surrounding atmosphere.
ReplyDeleteI didn't get to go on the trip this past week. I hear that it was amazing. I herd that it was a great trip to go on, and I wish to go sometime in the future.
ReplyDeleteI thought the the trip was great. I learn about the Holocaust from books and shows in the past but this was something different and had to me a depper meaning. To see the cloths, the train carts and the viedos was eye opening to me. See pictures and movies is one thing but to see actuale artifacts the places they had to sleep and the daily things they had to use touch me in a way i nevered been touched before.
ReplyDeleteI think the world should of stop the Nazis sooner as they were coming to power. The world kind of stood by and watched and when they decided to do something there was a lot of damage already done that could of been stop sooner.
I thought the war memorials were touching but also sad that so many people died. I had family members fight in WWII and the Vitamin war so they had some meaning to me.
The whole trip last Tuesday to me was the most depressing trip of my life, but it really put things into perspective. Instead of just learning about it in a book, you were surrounded by it all, as if taking a stroll through some of the darker parts in history; being able to actually see the events that led to the war and the ones transcribed during the war as if it were going on with each step you take. The most surprising thing to me was the fact that other countries knew of the rise of Germany's nationalism and were aware of there actions towards the jews of trying to kick them out. But no one did anything. Once others started to get involved, Germany already had camps running and killing all over Poland and other countries.
ReplyDeleteThe world should have set them inplace before they ever got the chance to carryout there actions. The people saw the S.S. army being built up stronger and stronger but no one did anything. The war memorials were grand in stature but one must really know of the war to know how high it stands. The memorials serve there purpose. That is for others to remember there sacrafices and duties to their country.
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The fact that the monstrosity occured is the fault of the entire world. Nationalism is good for the morale of a country. This is is one of situations in which nationalism is pushed entirely too far. As a result millions of lives of humanbeings, like you and I, were taken. Those very few souls that weren't taken were beaten down until they wished they were dead. This was one of the eye-opening experiences I have ever had. It's a shame I was unable to read every passage and watch every video in the museum.
ReplyDeleteWhat the world should have done was stop the Nazis from gaining so much power, instead of participating in a policy of either isolationism or indifference. The world's leader's should have cared more about the lives of countless human beings.
Like the Holocaust Museum, the War Memorials, although great in stature, are inadequate in relation to amount of lives lost to the various events. However, unlike the Holocaust Museum which was utterly depressing, the Memorials are examples of nationalism being shown in a positive way. These memorials are the best ways we believe we can honor those that died for the life of our country.
Personally, the best part of the trip was interview room were you heard the actual words and voices of some the jewish survivors. In that room, you could hear their voicesand understand their thoughts mlre vividly. A lot of things that I learned wasn't through the facts written down but the abstract real things such as the display that held the shoes of a small of the jews that went through the holocaust. When you think about it, those shoe only represented 10% of the millions of uknown faces that suffered. In my opinion, the shoes held a deep meaning because they were the remnant remains of the people who will never tell their tales; their shoes speak for them.
ReplyDeleteI also thought the monuments were amazing! I got a great excercise running up to see lincoln; more stairs than Rocky could do.
I thoguht the lake on the way up to Lincoln was
gross but the memorials were touching. To be able to see the names of so many men who went into those wars with a common goal was touching.
Everything about the trip was good except that blessed [kosher] food.
Sleep on the bus was Bomb! Wouldnt trade that for anything.
The trip to the museum really was a learning experience. I've always known bits and pieces about the holocaust but never in my wildest dreams did I think people could be that cruel and merciless to one another. It was a very surprising and eye opening reality check. It's ashame that the world stood bye and watched this happen. If money and resources were involved I bet America would've been the first country running to the rescue. I didn't quite feel the same about the war memorials like I felt about the museum. It was a scary thought to think that every last one of the those names were of people who died in a war.
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