The Museum of Tolerance

By Anonymous -
Last Friday February 10, me and my class took a field trip to the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. the building was big, the outside was painted darkly while the inside was brightly lit and white painted walls. The whole museum smelled rather clean which is surprising given this is a museum to honor the Holocaust. As we walked through the museum you could almost feel the pain and suffering caused to so many people. Our guide was extremely intense filled with strong emotions. As we walked slowly through the museum many cried, understandably so. It was devastating to truly see and discover what awful things occurred during they Holocaust. To think that humans did that to other humans is devastating.

After having been shown and told of all these terrible thing that occurred in the Holocaust, some call you a witness. Meaning you are a part of what horrible things occurred, not meaning you were there and you saw it. When someone says you are a witness it is then your responsibility to make sure that awful acts like those committed in the Holocaust are never committed again.

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