Holocaust Museum Washington DC

AVGWarhawk · 03-21-11, 10:27 AM

Yesterday at the request of my youngest daughter who has studied the Holocaust at her school, we paid a visit to the Holocaust Museum Washington DC. I was impressed with the presentation the museum created. It was very sobering and humbling. We came away with much more information on the Holocaust than we had known before the visit. If you get the opportunity to make a visit I highly recommend you do.

August · 03-21-11, 10:43 AM

Thanks for the recommendation AVG.

Torvald Von Mansee · 03-22-11, 12:06 PM

That was literally the last museum my mother ever visited.

Question: is it really appropriate to have it in the United States, though? Germany, Israel, or Poland I could see, by the U.S.?

Schroeder · 03-22-11, 12:23 PM

I believe there are many Jewish people in the states, so why not having a museum there as well? It's not like everybody from the states gets to Europe once in a while.

Freiwillige · 03-22-11, 12:30 PM

They are building one in Phoenix, Arizona too.

UnderseaLcpl · 03-22-11, 01:54 PM

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?

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.

Even worse, prominent members of the Jewish community have long spoken against the invasion of Iraq, a country in which at least 80,000 Kurds were systematically exterminated, by conservative estimates.

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.

03-21-11, 10:27 AM	#1
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,276 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Holocaust Museum Washington DC Yesterday at the request of my youngest daughter who has studied the Holocaust at her school, we paid a visit to the Holocaust Museum Washington DC. I was impressed with the presentation the museum created. It was very sobering and humbling. We came away with much more information on the Holocaust than we had known before the visit. If you get the opportunity to make a visit I highly recommend you do. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

03-21-11, 10:43 AM	#2
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,216 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Thanks for the recommendation AVG. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

03-22-11, 12:06 PM	#3
Torvald Von Mansee Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: CA4528 Posts: 1,693 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	That was literally the last museum my mother ever visited. Question: is it really appropriate to have it in the United States, though? Germany, Israel, or Poland I could see, by the U.S.? __________________ "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you" - Leon Trotsky

03-22-11, 12:23 PM	#4
Schroeder Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Banana Republic of Germany Posts: 6,170 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	I believe there are many Jewish people in the states, so why not having a museum there as well? It's not like everybody from the states gets to Europe once in a while. __________________ Putting Germ back into Germany.

03-22-11, 01:54 PM	#6
UnderseaLcpl Silent Hunter Join Date: May 2008 Location: Storming the beaches! Posts: 4,254 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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? 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. Even worse, prominent members of the Jewish community have long spoken against the invasion of Iraq, a country in which at least 80,000 Kurds were systematically exterminated, by conservative estimates. 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. __________________ I stole this sig from Task Force

03-22-11, 12:30 PM	#5
Freiwillige The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Phx. Az Posts: 1,458 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	They are building one in Phoenix, Arizona too.