Rodrigo Fernandez

Review of USHMM

Should you go? Definitely yes. There are several a...

Should you go? Definitely yes. There are several artifacts and models showcasing the horrors of the holocaust. However, I think that the museum could do so much more to exemplify the events during the holocaust. For example, when I came out of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, I left with all sorts of feelings against war and nuclear weapons. I was truly horrified. I've had a similar effect with the slavery part of at the African American history museum. I didn't feel like that in the Holocaust museum, the area of the concentration camps only dealt with beatings, gassing and creation which is awful in itself but I felt there was so much left unsaid. There was only small mention of experiments on twin kids, or other forms of torture, and I also felt there were little testimonials, at least to what I expected. This museum should be impactful, but I've had better exemplifications of the holocaust through "The Pianist", "Schindler's List", "The boy in the striped pijamas", and countless documentaries, "Auschwitz: The Nazis and the final solution" being one of the best.