While entering the museum, we were greeted by our tour guide Walter. The middle of the building was a spiral ramp. We strolled down the ramp, and before entering the exhibit, we were guided into a sound proof room, where Walter taught us about the basic history of the Holocaust. We then stood before two big motorized doors. A timer above showing us how much time until the doors would swing open. We were given cards with the names and pictures of children that had been captured and forced into concentration camps. We would come across checkpoints in the museum, and each time we would learn a little bit more about our child. At the end we would find out if they lived or died. My child, being eight years old, was one of 1.5 Million Jewish children to be executed. He was shot. When we finished traveling through the exhibit, we sauntered up the ramp, to the top floor. We found ourselves in a room, and sitting there was Rolf Gompertz, a Holocaust and Kristallnaucht survivor. He had come to speak to us and other people attending the Museum about his life and how he survived Kristallnaucht and avoided being forced into concentration camps. The overall experience was riveting.
As witnesses of history, our generation has the responsibility of going to every length to make sure that nothing as horrible as this will ever happen again. Hopefully by now we are educated enough to stop these things from happening.
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