What happened at the Museum of Tolerance?
On Thursday May 16th, Honor Roll class ethnic studies went to the Museum of Tolerance. The Museum is made to remind us to act and to stop genocide of any groups in the future.
In my experience there, we learned about a sculpturist, Jose Sacal who made a statue that represents his mother-in-law who went through the holocaust. A little later into the tour, we had to choose between two doors. The “Prejudiced” and the “Unprejudiced” doors. Prejudiced meant that we judge people before we meet them. The choices were even. Our docent, the person that leads us through the tour, told us that everyone is prejudiced, because that’s how people’s brains work.
For the rest of the tour we watched small plays, that explained what happened in the holocaust. We saw what the prisoners and Nazis’ wore in the concentration camps. But most importantly, we got to meet a Holocaust survivor.
AJCMS student, Joel Salas,13, said,“What I found interesting was when the [Holocaust survivor] talked about his experience and what surprised me was that they had numbers on their hand.” He also added, “[I found this interesting] because he was a survivor of the Holocaust, it was a real thing and not just a story on paper.” Joel thought meeting a Holocaust survivor is important because it shows the perspective of a person that lived through the Holocaust. Joel said I would also come back and see what has changed to the museum.
Angelica, AJCMS student,13, agreed with Joel and said,“The man that survived the Holocaust[was the most interesting], because even though he went to four concentration camps and all his family died, he was still able to get out of the concentration camp good, like mentally good.”
Another student, Vanessa Barrera,13, said,“The thing that I found the most interesting at the museum was the holocaust survivor because you got told what happen from a perspective of a person that was actually there.” She also said,“I think that it is important for people to hear stories from the survivors that are left because what they went through had a big impact on history since it killed six million Jews.”Her final thought on the Jews were,“I think they should be recognized as good people instead of still getting discriminated against, since they have already gone through a lot in the past.”
Most people were inspired by the Holocaust survivor and feel as though all people should hear his stories. If you have the chance you should visit the Museum of Tolerance!
