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Question: is it really appropriate to have it in the United States, though? Germany, Israel, or Poland I could see, by the U.S.?
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Ask the Jewish lady who survived the camps as a little girl. She took our tickets to enter the exhibit. There are plenty of folks I had known as a kid that survived the camps. I remember seeing the tattoos on the arms adminsiterd at the camps. Many US service men and women died in the ETO. This gives some good reason why a family member died in the war. It was not in vain.
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Did the tour include information on the other genocides of the century? Was half of the museum dedicated to the 6 million non-Jews who were also killed in the concentration camps?
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Glad you asked. The exhibit included ALL involved. Mentally/physically handicapped, Catholics, homosexual, black, diseased. The end exhibit concerned Rwanda and the genocide occuring there right now. So yes, the museum was all encompassing.
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Yeah, I thought not. I've already been there, and I saw what they chose to memorialize. Holocaust museum my ass. If it were really a memorial dedicated to the idea of "never again" it would be a lot more comprehensive. It would include the genocide of the Armenians and the Slavs and the Ukrainians and the Rwandans and the Somalis and the Cambodians and the Christians and the Muslims and so on and so forth. But that isn't really its purpose. It's just some crap thrown up by people with enough political influence to commemorate their own suffering, but not that of anyone else.
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Think again. Go to the website and look.
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They can take their memorial and shove it up their ass as far as I'm concerned. It is clear that they don't give a s*** about other victims of genocide and are concerned only with themselves, at taxpayer expense. Screw them, and screw their BS memorial. I'll start remembering their suffering as soon as they start actively pursuing an anti-genocide agenda.
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You are a bit hasty in your assumption. Visit the museum and the site.
http://www.ushmm.org/
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Genocide Emergency – Darfur, Sudan: Who Will Survive Today?
A display of photographs and extensive resource materials documenting the 2003-2005 genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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