Holocaust+Museums

​​  Holocaust Museums were built to serve as reminders of the terrible period of time called the Holocaust. The museums include reminders such as artifacts like shoes, eyeglasses, suitcases, and concentration camp uniforms. One Holocaust Museum is in Washington D.C. called United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This museum includes photographs, recorded oral histories, and documentary films. These films follow the stages of isolation, deportation, and extermination of the Holocaust. This museum takes one back to the frightful days of World War II when people were treated terribly by the Nazis. In this museum many concentration camp survivors are shown to share their views and experiences. At the opening of this museum Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel lite an eternal flame in the Hall of Rememberance. This museum also includes exhibits, publications, artwork, and actual artifacts from this period of time. 

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​  Another important Holocaust Museum is in Israel, called [|Yad Veshem]. It is located in the hills of what use to be Jerusalem. It was built by Israel's Knesset in 1953. Over six million Jews are remembered there after the Holocaust. It is considered holy ground. Some of the artifacts inside of the museum are 65 million documents that had thousands of pictures, Star of David patches that Jews were forced to wear, concentration camp uniforms (death camps, work camps, and "safety" camps), video and sound recordings, and a rail cattle car which they used to bring Jews to extermination camps and to take clothes from the gas chambers. The holocaust Museum in Isreal is one of the newest holocaust museums made. There are many different Holocaust Museums around the world, but the most important ones are the two we mentioned. This particular museum is importand because it was built on holy ground to bless all of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Here is a [|great picture]of the Yad Vashem Museum and a [|video tour of Yad Vashem.]

​  ​ The Holocaust museums were created after the [|horrible time of the Holocaust]when thousands of lives were lost. They were built to show people and make them aware of the terrible things that went on during the Holocaust. These museums show people how bad of a time it was so the Holocaust never happens again. Holocaust museums have many artifacts that were from the actual time of the Holocaust like the actual concentration camp uniforms people wore. They are there as reminders to everyone. They let us know that there was a time when people were torchured and killed because of religion or what they believed in. Holocaust museums are to teach us about the history of the Holocaust. The museums were not just built as reminders or to prevent the Holocaust from happening again, they are also there for information on the past and for people to study the Holocaust and the people that survived it. The Holocaust museums will always be a way to remember the Holocaust. The Importance of the Holocaust museums across the world are to teach and remind the relatives of the Holocaust victims and survivors and others what they went through. The Holocaust museums are a great way to learn about the Holocaust and World War II. They were created after the Holcaust and some were fashioned so that you can go to different rooms for different information. It is so important that people know about it because they need to know the facts about everything that went on in the Holocaust and after the World War was over. There are many artifacts from the war and from the people involved and in the middle of it (the citizens of the countries involved). There were so many [|concentration camps]here is the name of one inside of the Yad Vashem museum. There are many different [|museums around the world]and that is so that no matter where you are you can learn about the history of the Holocaust and the people involved. Some people believed that they should say that the Holocaust didn't happen because it might make them look like a better ruler or their country or nation seem better but you can't hide the truths of what went on because it was so tragic.

Holocaust museums relate to Anne Frank because Anne was someone who went trough the Holocaust. Her story will live on forever in the Holocaust museums. Her artifacts and stories will always be told and a way to remember Anne and her story is through Holocaust museums. By people going to Holocaust museums they can try to relate or understand what Anne and everyone else that was in the Holocaust went through. People can remember Anne and her family by going to Holocaust museums. Anne's story will always be told.  Holocaust Museums also can relate to Anne by the way people can learn about the Holocaust. If someone wanted to learn something about the Holocaust i would tell them to read The Diary of Anne Frank or [|The Diary of Anne Frank as a play] or you could go to one of the museums. In the museums there are facts and artifacts from Anne Frank's diary entriesand other Holocaust victims and their families. Anne Franks diary gave a lot of facts about the Holocaust for the museums to put in their tours, displays, and information packets. Anne Frank and the Holocaust museums are both a great way to learn about what happened to the victims of the Holocaust. Here are some great [|pictures from the book.]