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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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As far as I'm concerned, yes it should be in the U.S, Canada, Germany, France, UK, Poland, Russia, etc, etc
(If you don't remember, the U.S turned away a boat full of Jews coming from Germany, and sadly so did Canada.. North America needs to remember they were part of the atrocities that played out in Europe.)
I can see the aim of memorializing the people that died. But the idea is bigger than that. As the worst modern genocide, (to my knowledge... someone correct me if I'm wrong) the aim of these museums is to make people remember so it doesn't happen again.
You see these people in the news and on the world stage saying "Nope that didn't happen, they're lying. They're Jews they just want attention".
Say that to the survivors and their families.
As a highschooler, it was a mandatory thing that we had to make the trip over the border to Detroit to the Holocaust museum to see the exhibit and hear from a survivor. The man we saw was 8 years old when he was taken from his home in Poland. He is the only survivor of a family home comprising himself, is father, mother, grandmother, two sisters and twin brothers (of whose fate he hopes ended quickly). The camp he ended up in? Auschwitz initially, when he was transferred to Treblinka and worked as a sondercommando. Until the camp was moved again and he ended up in Sachsenhausen (sp).
He ended his sermon saying that he cannot sleep in the same room as his wife, because upon waking up, he remembers the guards beating him to get out of bed. Saying he remembers daily atrocities that would turn your stomach. This man died two years ago now, may he rest in peace.
The whole point of these museums is to keep the awareness in the publics mind. Not on the Jewish horrors, but on genocide as a whole.
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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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just make me scratch my head sometimes and wonder what the hell is wrong with us.