Visit the Holocaust Museum

I went here on a class trip a while ago, and it was amazing. I never knew more about the Holocaust before. If you plan on doing this, I say thumbs up!

but I went to the one in DC. It was an amazing experience. They give you identity cards of actual holocaust victims and then shove you into an elevator with too many people. You wind your way through the museum which is very dark. When you reach the end there is a round white room with a glass ceiling and an eternal flame in the center. I couldn’t stop crying. Finally my husband, said “it’s a memorial not the wailing wall.”

It was and is worth doing, because everyone should see it and know what happened, but it is a very sad day when you do go. So don’t go alone.

it was one of the more intense moments of my life. i was speechless for most of the visit.

thought that most of the people missed the point. good history lesson, but the fact that this could happen anywhere, even here in the States, well….they majority missed that. So sad.

Last Thanksgiving weekend my family and I went with my inlaws on a whirlwind Washington, DC tour. My daughter and I spent 2 of our precious hours at the Holocaust Museum. It was haunting. Such evil is hard for me to fathom. I think it’s a place that everyone ought to visit. I know that it is permanently etched upon my soul.

I went to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.
Very moving, an extremely somber tour.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024-2126
Main telephone: (202) 488-0400
TTY: (202) 488-0406

Well, I went to the one in New York (ps its free Wednesdays 4-8, fyi). At first it was all historical jewish stuff like, okay guys, give me some good stuff. But then once it got into the war time lines and etc it was riviting. There was an annoying tour group so I kind of rushed ahead a bit, but mostly I got really into it. It was emotional like and one point i realized i actually gasped with my hand do my mouth at one picture of a bunch of emancipated kids. so sad/scarry. also, it was more than like, a grade 10 history book, it showed other things, like how the US said the nazis were wrong in pursuing baptized (converted) jews, but made no attempt to stop the anti-semitism. i think i would have enjoyed it more if i read hebrew, since there were a lot of articles and etc in hebrew, where i felt the english caption didnt do it justice. all in all: i recommend it.

ive been to the all the differnet ones in berlin. really movin but really glad i went.

Went to the one in los angeles several times….great experience.