Analysis Of The Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Lexi Masters
Mrs. Greer
English 2
10 January 2014

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Could you imagine someone coming up to you and saying World War II never happened even if you had a relative die in that war? Or if they have museums about the war? Or even if there was a book written about the war by someone you know? No one should say that.This is why the Holocaust deniers are wrong. The Holocaust deniers are wrong because museums have been built to remember the Holocaust, books have been written by survivors, and it can really hurt a Holocaust survivor to say it never happened. Also denying the Holocaust could be the same as denying slavery.
The museums have been built to honor those and remember those in the Holocaust. “The United States Memorial Museum put on display its documentation of horror. This museum contains more than 5,ooo artifacts, photographs, uniforms, letters, and a rail car used to take Jewish prisoners and others to death camps (Thomson Reuters).” “The museum received visitation levels in excess of two million per annum since its opening in April 1993.” This article analyzes the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in the context of dark tourism, concluding that the museums nature, content, and purpose, pose questions about visitor motivation, “dark” attraction development, ethical management and the interpretation of history (Thomson Reuters). This Museum would be a great place for someone who denies or questions about the Holocaust. It can show the deniers that the Holocaust really did happen.
Many Holocaust survivors have written books about their experience during the Holocaust. Writing a book about the Holocaust may be a survivors way of healing their mind. Night is a book written about one man’s survival of the ...

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...s and the Holocaust was a cruel thing that the Nazis did to the Jews. Therefore if someone is going to deny the Holocaust they should visit the museum and see for themselves how depressing the Holocaust was or even read a book about ones own experience in the Holocaust or just keep their opinions to themselves and not say anything hurtful.

Work Cited

Bromley, Patricia Russell, Susan Garnett. The Holocaust as a History and Human Rights May 2010
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Cooper, Rabbi Abraham. Fighting Against the Holocaust Deniers Web. November, 21 2013.

Lasson, Kenneth. Holocaust Denial and the First Amendment: The Quest for the Truth in a Free
Society 6 (1997) Web. November 21, 2013.

Thomson Reuters. Interpretation of the Unimaginable: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C. and “Dark Tourism” August 1999 Web. November, 21 2013

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