My Visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC - by Kennedy

                                   United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

This national museum is a remembrance of all the victims from the Holocaust in Europe. More than 6 million European Jews were murdered at concentration camps including Auschwitz, Balzac, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Chelmno, Dachau, Ebensee, and Flossenburg. Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi party from 1934 to 1945.





When each person arrived at the       concentration camps, the Nazi's cut off that person's hair. They collected seven thousand kilograms of hair and delivered them to nationalized upholstery industries. Each person had mugshots taken before he or she was horribly murdered.

As shown in this picture, not only adults were killed, but young, innocent children as well. One million Jewish children were killed by burning, starvation, poisoning, and many other brutal actions. Although many people died in the Holocaust, many of them survived by being hidden in buildings.

Many prisoners were forced to join a slave labor system. Some of the jobs were sewing, building and other difficult tasks. Though they worked hard, they weren't treated well. They only got fed twice a day and the food servings were little and unpleasant. Overall, many of the prisoners would rather do hard labor than be killed.

Most deported Jews endured a torturous train journey to death camps in bare freight cars. They had conditions of hunger and thirst, overcrowding, and bad sanitation. In the winter they would deal with freezing temperatures and in summer they dealt with suffocating heat. Unfortunately, most of the elderly people and young children died during the journey.

There are thousands of burned shoes saved from the holocaust. The shoes belonged to poor Jews exterminated in the Holocaust. They lived to tell the sad story. There were about 43,000 pairs of shoes found when the Soviet Union liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945. Soldiers from the United States, Canada, England, and France liberated the other concentration camps.

These photographs were taken between 1890 and 1941 in Eishishok. The photographs, gathered from more than 100 families, who spent the early childhood with many of the Jews, who's lives were taken. All you have to remember is that the Jews were great people. They were wonderful, innocent people who had a painful end of their lives.