I went to the Holocaust Museum in Richmond the other week with a friend because she had to write a paper on it. She didn't want to go by herself so I figured it would be a good idea to write a blog about it. The Holocaust was the murder of approximately six million Jews and other groups because of their race by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Gypsies, the disabled, Slavics, Poles, and Russians were just a few of the other groups. In 1945, Germans killed nearly 2 out of 3 European Jews as part of the Final Solution which was, a policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Between 1948-51 almost 700,000 Jews emigrated to Israel, including 136,000 Jewish displaced persons from Europe. The crimes committed during the Holocaust devastated most Europena Jewish communities and eliminated hundreds of Jewish communities in occupied eastern Europe entirely.
In the museum there are artifacts left from there such as glasses and shoes. Each little station tells a story about a certain situation that you would face if you were in Germany. There is even a part where you have to crawl as if you were in hiding.
a soldier stands over a victim a quote by President Truman
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