Holocaust
...at have beautiful marble and elegant floors, the Holocaust Museum’s floor has a dark and gloomy look, which represents the misery of the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the effort of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany to exterminate the Jews and other people that they considered to be inferior. As a result about 12,000,000 people - about half of them Jews - were murdered. The murders were done by every means imaginable but most of the victims perished as a result of shooting, starvation, disease, and poison gas. Others were tortured to death or died in horrible medical experiments. Hitler took power in Germany in 1933 and almost immediately began the chain of events that led to the Holocaust. This first phase was the persecution of Jews in Germany and the other countries invaded by Hitler. It lasted until 1941. During this period, while Hitler built his power, Jews were persecuted and brutalized but there was no organized effort to systematically murder them. In the theater of the museum survivors tell their life encounters. On survivor told how prisoners were severely beaten. He testifies how if a button were to be missing from their clothing when they lined up for checking, the person(s) received 25 lashes. This particular survivor expressed how close of a relationship he had with is father and could not bear to witness him getting hurt. Therefore, the man, a young boy at the time, took his fathers lashes for him. Another survivor, a woman from Poland, mentioned how she feels she has to eat constantly for a fear of starvation. Because she was severely starved as a child in the Holocaust, she never wants to experience any amount of hunger again in her life. She states,” If I’m hunger and the restaurant take more than 30 minutes to bring the food, I leave and eat fast food”. Experiments were carried out on the prisoners as well. One experiment tested how little a person can eat before dying. Photographs inside the museum show disturbing pictures of skeletal prisoners in the camp. There is nothing left of their bodies but flesh and bone. Another experiment that was carried out was the removal of a group of young boy’s sexual organs for the stop of reproduction of more contrasting races. There were also pictures taken of the group of young boys after the experiment without there organs. During World War II the United States took virtually n...