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Visit to a Holocaust Museum

Although I knew a visit to the Holocaust Museum in Houston, Texas would not be like other visits to museums, I did not fully comprehend the gravity of this particular visit until I was outside the museum itself and noticed the building design of the round factory chimney fume. I briefly wondered if that was what the furnaces looked like in the camps and then entered to begin my journey through the permanent exhibit, Bearing Witness: A Community Remembers. As my visit progressed, especially as I looked at the photographs, I began to understand why Jews would feel a need for their own nation รป for a place where they could go and feel safe. This must be the way other persecuted peoples feel as well.

The couple of hours I traveled through the permanent exhibit, looking at the photographs, film footage, artifacts, and other documentation, left me horrified, depressed, and outraged. The photographs, footage, and other artifacts and documentation used in the exhibit was grounded in the testimony of those survivors who now live or have lived in the Houston area (Bearing Witness http://www.hmh.org/ex_permanent.asp). They are my neighbors, yet they had been demonized and made out to be the reason that everything was wrong with the world because of their genetic background. Realizing this made the photographs all the more tangible for me. These were just average people going about the business of their lives, but because of their genetic makeup, their livelihoods were taken from them, they were forced into ghettos, they were beaten, tortured, and made to live in conditions worse than barnyard animals live in, made to live in their own filth, sometimes without clothes and not enough food to sustain them. Then, after all that, they were murdered. While many fled to places like Houston in the United States after they were liberated, others worked to create the nation of Israel. In this way they would never again be told that they were...

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