We Must Never Forget: The Holocaust
Created By: Maurie Roth, Max Kevin Mörtl, Vu Duong and Margaritta
Averina
We went on a trip to Berlin where our objective was to learn more about the
Holocaust. We went to two museums, the Jewish Museum and the
Information Center under the Jewish memorial. We learned a lot from this
experience and tried our best to share our new found knowledge through this
Feature Article.
Places Of Interest
The Jewish Museum-To gain
more insight on the topic we went
to two different museums, this
included the Jewish Museum. The
museum had a good lay out and
was full of information. The
information ranged from Jewish
History Background all the way to
the rise of the Nazi’s and the
beginning of the Holocaust. The
majority of the museum was
devoted to expressing what
Judaism is how it came about.
There was history dating back to
biblical times. It traced the Jews
back to their origin of Israel. Other
aspects of the museum would
show short films about how the
Jews practice their religion and
what was required of them to be a
Jew. The Holocaust tower and the
Memory Void are really something
special. The Holocaust tower is a
place in the museum with tall black
walls and no roof. It is very cold
and silent and is meant to be a
place of reflection about the many
people who lost their lives during
the Holocaust. It is very smart and
a very good choice that they added
this Holocaust Tower to the
museum, because it is so cold and
silent but anyways it has so much
meaning, because it is one of a
kind where you can put yourself in
the situation of the victims. The
memory void was another place in
the museum where someone could
go to reflect about the Holocaust.
Inside this room, there are 10,000
metal faces. These are to represent
10,000 of the innocent people who
died as a result of the war. There
were stories about religious Jews
who were women and how their
daily life was.
For more information about the
museum visit:
http://www.jmberlin.de/main/EN/ho
mepage-EN.php
Information center for the
Holocaust memorial-The second
museum that we visited was the
underground museum right by the
Jewish memorial site. This was
more interesting for us because it
had more to do with the
Concentration Camps and with the
Holocaust. There was an accurate
history of the main events of the
Holocaust and some personal
stories of survivors from the
concentration camps. Something,
which was very interesting, was
that on the floor there were letters
from victims of the Holocaust to
their parents and to there loved
ones. This information would make
the reader enter the situation and
understand how the victims of the
Holocaust are felt. There were
numbers all around the top of the
wall, which showed how many
people, died in which countries.
the reason that it was very
confusing and that there were so
many ways that you could reach
the end to. There were many
tourists who were there and it
looked as if they were meditating
about the Holocaust.
The reason that the Jewish
Memorial Site is very peaceful is
due to the reason that people do a
lot of thinking there and they do a
lot of meditation and putting
themselves into the minds or the
thoughts of the Jews and the other
victims of the Holocaust.
Historical Background
The country with the most deaths
of the Jews was Poland. There
were also pictures all around which
showed the situation and these
pictures told stories.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.travelandlifestylediaries.
com/2012/04/undergroundmuseum-of-holocaust.html
Jewish Memorial Site-The Jewish
Memorial site was an amazing
place to enter. There was so much
to learn from and to gain
information from. The site had hills
that made it go up and down.
Because the Jewish Memorial site
was so huge it was in a way
intimidating because you felt
trapped in between the huge
“tombs”. The Memorial Site could
remind someone of a maze, due to
It all started in 1889 when Adolf
Hitler was born. He had a tough
childhood growing up in Austria with
an abusive father and an
unsupportive family. Once he had
grown to a respectable age, he
gathered a group of soldiers and
decided to take over Germany by
force. The plan ultimately failed so
later in his life he decided to take
over Germany through politics. He
ran for president but was out voted
to a war veteran who later, in 1933,
named Hitler Chancellor of
Germany. The president died in
1934 which, by default, left Hitler as
the president of Germany. Once he
was president, it wasn’t hard for him
to slowly become a dictator over the
German people.
For more information about Hitler,
visit:
http://www2.dsu.nodak.edu/users/dm
eier/Holocaust/hitler.html
Hitler was a dictator with the help of
the Nazi Party. In the Information
center for the Holocaust memorial,
boards on the wall explained how the
purpose of the party was to create a
dominate race, which was the
average German person. They also
aimed to eliminate all other
minorities that might threaten the
dominance of their race. These
minorities included: Jews, Jehovah’s
Witnesses, Slavs, gypsies,
bisexuals, and mentally or physically
handicapped people. While in the
museum, people from all of the
different groups listed above spoke
about their experiences in the
concentration camps. In Poland
especially, there were a large
number of ghettos and deportations.
At the Information centre about the
Holocaust there were numbers
showing how many Jews died in
Poland during the Holocaust. Under
there is a table which shows the
amounts of people in different
countries that died.
For more information about Hitler,
visit:
http://www2.dsu.nodak.edu/users/d
meier/Holocaust/hitler.html
Interviews about the Holocaust
Interviews about the Holocaust, click
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Coping with the Holocaust
Nearly 6 million Jews were
murdered in the Holocaust by
1945. It has now been 70 years
since then, therefore most of
today’s Germans share no
personal responsibility for the
Holocaust. But that doesn’t mean
they have forgotten their nation's
history. On April 1, 2003, the
construction of the Holocaust
memorial in Berlin began. It was
later completed on December 15,
2004. The importance of these
memorials cannot be overstated. If
we continue to remember and learn
about the Holocaust, we can make
sure that nothing like it will ever
happen again. While the Holocaust
can be a sore subject, especially to
German people, it is a very good
thing that we face this catastrophe
together and learn how to cope
with such a disastrous event.
People all around the world come
to visit this site, in commemoration
of the people who lost their lives
during World War II.
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