Sunday, November 11, 2007

The Holocaust- Genocide

So I've heard many times about the holocaust and genocide, and have been to the museum of tolerance in both LA and in Germany. They are very impacting and very influential, but they never really sink in, even with hearing a person's own story. I've debated the issue in Model United Nations and have written resolutions on how to stop the issue, but it all just became an assignment rather than a passion or an interest to change. I know that this is ignorant and really not the way it should be, however, living in our skeptical generation has made me this way. Sadly the one thing that has impacted me the most, is an art piece that I went to in the holocaust museum in Germany. The entire museum was confusing and as soon as you went in you were disoriented with really, no sense of where you were. That frustrated me, so I didn't much enjoy the rest of the museum but then my friends took me to this one art piece that silenced me completely. It was the most impactful thing I've seen, and maybe that's just because I am more impacted by art than anything else. But it was this large Vshaped room. Completely white with high ceilings at the entrance and low ceilings at the back. It was well lit at the entrance and completely dark at the point of the V. In the side was this pool of metal that you were supposed to walk on, like it was the floor. Each metal piece was formed into a frowning face, and while you walked on them, they would clank together and echo in the rest of the room. It made me speechless because it was like all the people's screams just being trampled, millions and millions of screams just resonating, and nothing being done about it. I pray, but it is still not a passion of mine to change it. I do not agree with genocide, obviously the mass murdering of millions of people is not okay, but I feel that right now all I am called to do with it is pray, remember and pass on.

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