My visit to the Holocaust Museum was impacting. When you walk in the museum I figured that you would walk into a huge exhibit of artifacts and history readings. I walked into the room and saw little amounts of the artifacts and history readings and was shocked by the amounts of things in such a small museum. Walking around, I saw the story of Elie Weisel and his impact when he wrote the book on being in the Holocaust and I remembered him from his book I read in high school. It became one of my favorite books and that part of the museum stood out to me the most. Looking at the pictures of the people in the Holocaust really made an impact on my heart for the Jews that had to go through the judgment of the soldiers and Hitler. I had a rough time looking at some of the pictures because there was piles of dead bodies and soldiers holding guns to the foreheads of small children. The museum visit was difficult.
My personal reflection of the Holocaust and evaluation of the Holocaust is, “Why?” I don’t see or get the whole point in the heinous acts that were committed against innocent people and their peers. I find it hard to believe what they went through and the humiliation and torture they experienced throughout the years of the war. The numbers of countless piles of bodies laying in a grave made me question the sanity of anyone who did the acts on these people. It made me realize how disheartened people can be for loyalty to their country. I have a hard time thinking about it or reflecting on it. Overall the museum visit was hard and made be silent and think for a while afterwards.
