My Field Trip Tomorrow is Going to Make Me Cry...

[CheezDoodle]

So yeah my grade is going to the Holocaust museum tomorrow. And I'm pretty sure I'm going to cry... Because today we watched a 'Survivors of the Holocaust' video in class, and it was interviewing all the old people who were in concentration camps as little kids. And you hear them talking about having to be seperated from their parents, siblings, etc., and it's just so depressing. So if that almost made me cry, I know I'm going to cry at that museum.

Has anyone here been to a holocaust museum before (I know that there are like 5 in the US)? If so, could you give me a rating on the sadness scale from 1-10? Like, I'm not sure I want to go if you have to see videos of people getting gassed or burned alive or something.

 

[ohdisco]

I went to the one in DC, and as someone who cries over EVERYTHING, I just got a little teary eyed. Most of it is just sad, but interesting (I'm a WWII nut though, so learning anything about it is fascinating).

5 1/2 for the one in DC

 

[::Snow_White::]

We are reading Night in english. I am actually right at this moment rewriting the story for a journal we have to do.
I saw your thread and before I even skimmed over it, I was just thinking about the holocaust museum would be great to go to....
Creepy.

Anyways I haven't been to one, but I really really want to.

 

[Tinkerbell424]

I haven't been to one but I would love to visit one.
My grandfather was a soldier for the American army and when he went to Germany he was held, POW for monthes. He's Jewish, but luckily none of the guards checked his dogtag or else he wouldn't be with us today.

I would cry. The Holocaust is something that get's me VERY emotional.

 

[CheezDoodle]

We are reading Night in english. I am actually right at this moment rewriting the story for a journal we have to do.
I saw your thread and before I even skimmed over it, I was just thinking about the holocaust museum would be great to go to....
Creepy.

Anyways I haven't been to one, but I really really want to.

My teacher said we have to be really quiet, like we're in a church. and she said that it's really cold in there (65 degrees). So I assume it will be pretty eerie.

But I'm glad it's not horribly depressing.

 

[*Disney_Wishes*]

Has anyone seen the hand statue in Florida?

 

[ohdisco]

We are reading Night in english. I am actually right at this moment rewriting the story for a journal we have to do.
I saw your thread and before I even skimmed over it, I was just thinking about the holocaust museum would be great to go to....
Creepy.

Anyways I haven't been to one, but I really really want to.

Fan-frickin-tastic book. People always think it's weird that I absolutely LOVE that book.

 

[chisnpeke]

The Holocaust saddens me so much. I've never been to a museum but hope it's not too depressing for you. If you enjoy (wow that sounds bad) learning about the Holocaust I would recommend the book Night it is VERY good but sad.

 

[chisnpeke]

Fan-frickin-tastic book. People always think it's weird that I absolutely LOVE that book.

I totally agree. Amazing story, it's very sad but very good. One of my favorites. We had to read it for school in tenth grade and I just loved it.

 

[CheezDoodle]

Has anyone seen the hand statue in Florida?

God that's freaky. The one in Fl is the one I'm going to.

 

[::Snow_White::]

Fan-frickin-tastic book. People always think it's weird that I absolutely LOVE that book.

We are just starting chapter 6.
I love it.
We are suppose to be writing to the author after we finish it also.

 

[disney100666]

We learned about the Holocaust last year in English. We watched a movie about it too and I thought I would cry. I'm sure I'd get upset if I went to the museum too.

 

[Ms.Squeakers]

YES.
COME TO DC.
ITS AMAZING.
xD



Yeah, that museum, its ...

Let me just put it like this :

In the grownup part of the museum, there's a stable car cut open and you get to walk through it but its haunted.

Its so SAD.

I have never been inside, but around it, and there is a vibe that just makes you want to find Hitler bring him back to life and kill him again.


BUT.


My school makes Hitler seem like a cool guy.

HES NOT.


[pasfjafopjops

I hate him.
Sorry.
Im passionate about these things.

 

[Sparx]

I've been to a military museum in town, before. There were some pretty graphic photos. It'll shake you to the bones. The Nam and Holocaust stuff hit me the hardest.

I think the scariest thing I've seen was a bloodstained Nazi flag. Or maybe a Nazi uniform with all the awards and such.

(The way that uniform made it out of germany was that the nazi took it off, and was trying to escape his service contract. An american found it and hid it and brought it back. I dunno what happened to the Nazi)

 

[acesupercoolme]

I went to the one in Washington DC.. I cried a lot.

 

[Cassidy]

Were reading a book about the Holocaust.
I refused to lay my eyes upon it.
I got in trouble.
But they understood.
It scared me to death.

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

I am an American Historian but my focus for European history is World War II, specifically the Holocaust. Right now for one of my classes I am writing a paper on the experiences of children (Jewish, gypsy, Polish, etc.) in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenua. Some of the stories are hard to read and some of the pictures are graphic but I realize as a historian it is my job to share these stories and the information with the world to make them realize that it happened and it is important to remember it today and for the future.
I lost family in the Holocaust and my great grandparents and grandparents never talked about it because it was so emotional. I feel it is my duty to honor my ancestors by sharing the stories of the Holocaust with others and to educate them on all parts of history--the good, the bad, and the horrific. I study history 1) because it interests me and 2) because I feel that our ancestors and all people who have lived need to have their stories told and remembered.

 

[BabyPiglet]

I'd be way to interested to cry. It's incredibly depressing and sad, of course, but it's really fascinating to me.

Okay, that sounded way colder than I meant it to be.

 

[imabrat]

I'd be way to interested to cry. It's incredibly depressing and sad, of course, but it's really fascinating to me.

Okay, that sounded way colder than I meant it to be.

Me too.
Call me cold hearted but it's so tragic I can't help find it fascinating.


Great post,Norah.

 

[BabyPiglet]

Exactly.

For some reason I've been fascinated by it for years (since I was in 5th grade) and I've read a huge amount of fiction and non-fiction books about it. What's interesting, I think, is how awful and cruel people can be. It's unimaginable.