I've been to the Holocaust Museum here in DC when my mother and little sister were visiting. We didn't have time to see everything, and even though I live here, I haven't been back to see the rest. I am sure I will go back to see the rest at some point. I didn't know about the concentration camps in Europe. If I ever have a chance, I would probably visit those also. I think Schindler's List was a good movie. I just bought the DVD, which came out this week.
Holocaust Museum/Cocentration Camp - would you visit?
by eyeslice 15 Replies latest jw friends
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Carmel
Eyes, like you I've seen enough and heard enough about the holocaust. Lived in Haifa, Israel for four years and drove by the Museum north of Akka many times, but never had the urge to take the tour, even though it was free. I don't know how long the Jews will ride the victim card but having not experianced it or had relatives die in it, I guess I'm not as empathetic as I could be. I really enjoyed most of the Israelies but there is an under tone of "pity me" in many. The youth seem to be pretty ambivilant compared to the older generation.
carmel
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petespal2002
I'm visiting DC from England next week and intend viviting the holocaust museum. Whether I live up to that intention or not we shall see.
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Phantom Stranger
I would be interested in visiting such a museum... not having been the target of years of genocide, I won't criticize the Jews for wanting to remind them and the rest of the world what happened, and how.
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Kenneson
I'm a history buff. If I ever have the opportunity, I won't hesitate. There are still holocaust deniers out there. Some of you may be too new to remember the previous heated debates centered on this topic. One individual was actually removed from this forum for inflaming and incensing the sensibilities of some posters.
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fader
I have been to the Holocaust Museum in Washington several times and I have visited a couple of the concentration camps in Germany. I think it's important that we make every effort to never forget, even if it makes us uncomfortable. When I started my current job, by the way, I had seven weeks of initial training, and on one of those days we had to go to the Holocaust museum.
On a side now, I attended a congregation for four years in Germany. Two of the Kusserow sisters were in my congregation (at least one of them is dead now). Remember the WT had a big article about them? Several times actually. And there is a display at the Holocaust museum that talks about JWs and the Kusserow family. I remember we went over to their house one day and they showed me the letter that Hitler himself had signed ordering the execution of one of their brothers. It was chilling (even though I can't read German) to see it.
What makes my blood boil is that we (collective we, meaning the world) vowed that we would never let these atrocities happen, and yet we (by this I mean America -- since I'm American) stood by and allowed a genocide to happen in Rwanda in 1994. I worked in Rwanda briefly and traveled there a number of times. Even though the genocide was 10 years ago, it's still shocking to go there. Everywhere I turned there were people missing limbs, and other's who had lost entire families, etc. There are a couple really well written books that discuss the genocide in Rwanda (one is ..."we regret to inform you that you and your family will be killed tomorrow") if anyone is interested.