Museum of Tolerance essays

Museum of Tolerance essays As I explored the Museum of Tolerance, I was surprised to find what is an environment of high tech media in your face interactive screens that educates visitors with human rights issues all over the world. The Museum explores areas such as the exploitation of women and children, threat of terrorism and engages visitors to finding solutions to the problems of human rights violations. I became a witness to the events of World War II while I was toured around room to room as if we were reliving the decades events in Germany from pre-World War II, through the rise and fall of the Third Reich, and liberation. I received photo passport card of a young boy whose life was changed by the events of the Holocaust. Throughout the tour, my passport is updated and at the end, the ultimate fate of the child is revealed. I felt Death. The Museum of Tolerance also showed an unforgettable timeline of all the victims of the Holocaust as well to all the patrons. From Hitler's rise to power, which was the initiation of a period that produced great fear to millions, to the destruction of almost an entire civilization. Millions were forced to live in ghettos, only to be deported later to the concentration camps to be inhumanely slaughtered via gas chambers or shooting gallery. Below are the chronological tragic details and events that remained quite vague until the liberation of the death camps: 1. THE RISE OF THE NAZI PARTY (1918-1933): It is interesting to find that many do not know that the Nazi Party started as a gang of unemployed soldiers in 1919. It is also surprising that this gang would become the legal government of Germany by 1933. In the next fourteen years, a once obscure corporal by the name of Adolf Hitler, would rise to be the Nazi party leader, would become the Chancellor of Germany. This type of movement in the world geographic sense, would be symbolic to the claiming of territories, people, o...