Blog #4

If you did not survive the Holocaust, you can never truly understand it. No matter how many times we look at the disturbing images and how much we read into the history, we will never know what it feels like to survive such a horrific event. The saddest part is that it is not over yet. Today in countries like Darfur genocide continues. Genocide has killed millions of people just since 1945. I found the display on the bottom floor of the museum captivating as it listed countries then how many people have died in one country since 1945. Well over a million have died since the Holocaust, it is like we did not even learn from it. On the bottom floor, I was also touched by the train. The captions told how the last car of the train was saved for dead bodies and it was chilling to think about how many dead people have been in that car. It was the same with the Military Museum with the tanks and the guns were I could not help but think how many people these instruments of war killed. Unlike the Holocaust Museum, the Military Museum did not even touch on the death aspect of war even though World War II was its biggest display. It is as if the Military Museum glorifies war, completely ignoring the loss of innocent lives, while the Holocaust Museum condemns war, and honors the innocent people who were ruthlessly murdered.