Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum | 
The tagged book is a book I‘m currently studying in part for university. It‘s a fascinating and I feel, important book that illuminates how museums work to create displays of memorial or commemoration in relation to the holocaust. I‘ve been looking at United States Holocaust Museum and the Memorial of the Shoah in particular. Has anyone been to either of these museums? #history #holocaust #shoah #WWII #museum #nonfiction #historystudent
wanderinglynn No, I haven‘t gotten to it yet, but I live in DC where the U.S. Holocaust Museum is located. 7y
DivineDiana I have been to the U.S. Holocaust Museum in DC. It was a haunting experience. 7y
emilyhaldi No but I have been to the Terezin Holocaust Memorial and Museum outside of Prague... It was extremely humbling and powerful to see and remember. 7y
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Samplergal I have been to the DC Holocaust museum. I always say to visitors to dc, if you nothing else, you should see that. Skip the rest. It‘s chilling and will live in you forever, as it should. 7y
Sophoclessweetheart @wanderinglynn Oh! I see. I‘d be interested to see it, but being in the U.K. it isn‘t likely to happen. X 7y
Sophoclessweetheart @DivineDiana I can imagine it would be. Even looking at it in photos I get the feeling of eerie silence. X 7y
Sophoclessweetheart @emilyhaldi Ah! I can imagine! X 7y
Sophoclessweetheart @Samplergal As it should indeed. It‘s not likely I‘ll ever get to visit the USA but if I ever get the chance I shall make effort to go there! I live 20-30 minutes away from the National Holocaust Museum here in the U.K. but I fear it isn‘t quite a patch on the DC one. X 7y
Cinfhen I‘ve been to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Israel. I toured with a survivor...an experience that will stay with me forever 😭😭😭😭I regret not visiting the museum in DC... 7y
Samplergal @Wanderingwithwords what stuck with me was the sound levels. You start on the third floor and people are talking, even “laughing”. By the time you reach the ground floor, utter silence. People simply wept silently. 7y
Sophoclessweetheart @Cinfhen I bet that was an amazing and haunting experience. X 7y
Sophoclessweetheart @Samplergal Thank you for sharing that. It must be so dramatic to see such a change invoked in people. It must be something. X 7y
Cinfhen @Samplergal 💔💔💔 7y
Cinfhen My older kids have been to the museum in DC and they have been to Poland with their school to see Auschwitz first hand... @Samplergal they both mentioned that same feeling of utter silence and disbelief 7y
Sophoclessweetheart @Cinfhen It‘s Wonderful that your children‘s school cover this in their curriculum, it‘s always been something that goes unmentioned in history classes here (at least up until I was in school, I‘m not sure the curriculums nowadays!) and I‘ve always found that disgusting. It‘s something all schools should cover I feel. 7y
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