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 Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:27 pm
Have you been to the Holocaust Museum?
I'm unsure if this has been done, but I'm interested to hear people's feelings & reactions in the place.
Like, what exhibits interested you most, which ones moved you most, etc.
I've been. Although I only stayed 20 minutes. In grade 5, we took a coach from Georgia to D.C, and went to many places, one being the Holocaust Museum. I always read books on the Holocaust, because I was amazed that humanity could be that cruel. When we went to the Museum, we could only see some things, since I believe you must be 16 to see it all. We saw some walk-through diary, and then the infamous "wall of shoes" where they have shoes of the Holocaust victims. At this point I was touching the glass and crying, then ran to the bathroom and vomited. One day, I hope to go back and see it all. It's a quiet place, and it's almost haunting. That was my story .__. Anymore?
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Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 7:35 pm
When I went to D.C. last the Museum wasn't open. sad But I did get stuck in a subway with a guy going through the emergency exits and cussing at my dad. We decided to walk the rest of the trip and it was terrible... ((I was pretty sure that guy had a gun))
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Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 6:23 pm
I went there once.
All my friends cried their eyes out. I felt nothing.
Their souls were weighted with emotion while emptiness echoed in my heart.
The same old facts, the figures, the balck-and-white pictures... It all seemed so far away from me.
I was cold and emotionless, a Jew who couldn't care less. I have never forgiven myself for that.
The expereince forever changed me as a Jew.
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Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 9:42 pm
Lumanny the Space Jew I went there once. All my friends cried their eyes out. I felt nothing. Their souls were weighted with emotion while emptiness echoed in my heart. The same old facts, the figures, the balck-and-white pictures... It all seemed so far away from me. I was cold and emotionless, a Jew who couldn't care less. I have never forgiven myself for that. The expereince forever changed me as a Jew.@ bold: That is what is most important. I think your "couldnt care less" attitude is due to your A.S. My husband is the same way.. iJew_Intelligence101 When I went to D.C. last the Museum wasn't open. sad But I did get stuck in a subway with a guy going through the emergency exits and cussing at my dad. We decided to walk the rest of the trip and it was terrible... ((I was pretty sure that guy had a gun)) Ah really? Wasnt open? Do you know the rough month & year you went? That's so strange, its open like...7 days a week xD Although they do close for maintenance, and i believe it closed for some time when that crazy guy shot someone.
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Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:54 pm
Yes, I went. It was definitely moving. I was in tears by the time I came to the shoes
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Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 7:10 am
I think it's very important that I should go, and yet I'm nervous to go, not because of how I'll respond emotionally, but because of how I won't respond emotionally. When something is very powerful for me, I tend to become very reserved and even look blase' according to my friends and family, as if I'm not really involved with it, as if it doesn't matter to me. I think I'm being demonstrative, but I'm told that I start looking like I'm bored and want to go do anything besides what I'm doing. I don't want to be at that intense place, seeing those powerful images and evocative objects, and even appear to be remote and uncaring, lest my appearance severely hurt those who are around me by seeming to be immune to all that pain and history.
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Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 5:44 pm
Divash I think it's very important that I should go, and yet I'm nervous to go, not because of how I'll respond emotionally, but because of how I won't respond emotionally. When something is very powerful for me, I tend to become very reserved and even look blase' according to my friends and family, as if I'm not really involved with it, as if it doesn't matter to me. I think I'm being demonstrative, but I'm told that I start looking like I'm bored and want to go do anything besides what I'm doing. I don't want to be at that intense place, seeing those powerful images and evocative objects, and even appear to be remote and uncaring, lest my appearance severely hurt those who are around me by seeming to be immune to all that pain and history. Crap, now I feel even guiltier. Do you think my indifference could have offended others?
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Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 12:43 pm
Call Me Apple Lumanny the Space Jew I went there once. All my friends cried their eyes out. I felt nothing. Their souls were weighted with emotion while emptiness echoed in my heart. The same old facts, the figures, the balck-and-white pictures... It all seemed so far away from me. I was cold and emotionless, a Jew who couldn't care less. I have never forgiven myself for that. The expereince forever changed me as a Jew.@ bold: That is what is most important. I think your "couldnt care less" attitude is due to your A.S. My husband is the same way.. iJew_Intelligence101 When I went to D.C. last the Museum wasn't open. sad But I did get stuck in a subway with a guy going through the emergency exits and cussing at my dad. We decided to walk the rest of the trip and it was terrible... ((I was pretty sure that guy had a gun)) Ah really? Wasnt open? Do you know the rough month & year you went? That's so strange, its open like...7 days a week xD Although they do close for maintenance, and i believe it closed for some time when that crazy guy shot someone. 0_o... maybe June 2001 or 2002.
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Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 4:15 pm
Lumanny the Space Jew Do you think my indifference could have offended others? I don't know, but I doubt it. I do know that mine could, though (or rather, my apparent indifference, not my actual indifference, which I know I could never feel at a Holocaust exhibit), because apparently I look indifferent when I'm actually quite absorbed in something, and I look downright belligerent when I'm merely indifferent. I have to concentrate quite intently to show what's actually in my mind, rather than to look like I feel something quite different from the way I do in fact feel.
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Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 2:03 pm
Divash Lumanny the Space Jew Do you think my indifference could have offended others? I don't know, but I doubt it. I do know that mine could, though (or rather, my apparent indifference, not my actual indifference, which I know I could never feel at a Holocaust exhibit), because apparently I look indifferent when I'm actually quite absorbed in something, and I look downright belligerent when I'm merely indifferent. I have to concentrate quite intently to show what's actually in my mind, rather than to look like I feel something quite different from the way I do in fact feel. I think I'd honestly not be able to handle it... but emotionally (since I'm a guy I suppose) I'd contain it for a long time. So I know how you feel Divash. sad
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:47 am
I went when I was a kid. Probably a poor time to have taken me, since I was stuck in a hospital for a month while doctors were insisting that I was broken. =
I don't really remember much of it. I do remember getting pretty angry that people can treat each other like that.
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