The Museum of Tolerance

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The Museum of Tolerance

The Museum of Tolerance focuses on two central themes: The history of racism and prejudice in the American experience and the Holocaust- man’s inhumanity to man. The issues of human rights, racism, and responsibility are discussed. The responsibility of each individual person is to speak up in opposition of extermination of another race and stop another Holocaust. World War II and Hitler, the German leader was intent on conquests and war, but he needed a scapegoat to blame and the Jews were headed for genocide. What I found most interesting about a something so terrible was the Resistance Movement and specifically – The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

I went to the museum with a date, but when we came out, all I could say was "what do you say?" He was Jewish and wanted to go to the museum for a long time and the excuse he always told himself was, "I will one day." He was glad he I had an assignment because he thought the experience was one long overdue.

Between 1941 and 1943 the underground resistance movement formed about 100 Jewish groups. The most...

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