Visit to the Holocaust Museum Houston

In front of the Holocaust Museum

This was my first time visiting the Holocaust Museum Houston. I honestly didn't know what to expect. Although a day before I visited the museum my coworker told me a little about her experience. She had gone when she was in High School. She said that being in that place and reading what the victims of the Holocaust had to go through touched her deeply. I invited my sister to go with me that day. The day that we went seemed like the weather fit perfectly with the setting. It was gloomy and raining. When we walked in, the first thing that came to my head was "Where do I start"? A lady that worked there seemed to notice our blank look on our faces and came up to us. She explained all the areas that the musuem had. The first area that we walked into was the "Bearing Witness: A Community Remembers". This gallery was full of pictures of some of the Jews that lived through this time. The pictures explained the culture and life that the Jewish lived. One thing that did stood out to me in this part of the exhibit was a quote that was hanging on the ceiling. It stated "It happened,therefore it can happen again, this is the core of what we have to say"(Primo Levi). I took this quote as a message that a victim of the Holocaust was trying to get across to people. If humans had the courage to do this to other human beings during their time what makes us think it cant happen during our period of time. After passing through the Permanent Exhibition, we went to the Lack Family Memorial Room. This part of the exhibit had a Memorial Wall that served as a place where local Holocaust survivors can show respect to lost loved ones. It amazed me how below the ceramic tiles they had soil mixed with ashes of those that had died during the Holocaust. Leaving this museum was honestly a great experience. Just being able to see a little bit more of  what the Jews,gypsies,homosexuals,people with disablilites, Jehovah's Witnesses,prisoners of war,political dissidents and mentally impaired had to go through during the persecution by the Nazi Germany.

 

  

Quote by Primo Levi

 

   

 



                                       Pamphlet of the Museum



                            The Wall of Tears