DC trip highlights: Holocaust Museum

I have recently returned from Faith’s trip to Gettysburg and Washington D.C., and I am trying to reflect on the time I spent in those places. I thought about mentioning every place that our group visited and everything that we experienced, but that would not give you a good understanding of what the trip was like. For me, the D.C. trip was a learning and growing experience, and there was one place that I experienced in particular that contributed to this.

The Holocaust Museum was something that I was already looking forward to before we even entered the building. For one, I admired that it was an entire museum dedicated to the Holocaust and honoring its victims and survivors. I was expecting great things from this museum beforehand, but it still managed to amaze me. We started off our self-guided tours in an elevator to go to the fourth floor, and when that elevator stopped, and those doors opened.  I immediately saw a simple sign that read, “The Holocaust”. The sign reminded me that what I was about to see in this museum was pulled from a real, terrible event. Knowing this, I went through the Holocaust Museum with perspective, and I tried to picture the people I was reading and hearing about. What struck me the most from the museum was a story from a Holocaust survivor who recounted the day that she, her mom, her sister, and her sister’s child entered a concentration camp, and her mom sacrificed herself for her sister to survive another day. The Holocaust Museum was truly the most impactful place that I had the opportunity to experience on D.C. Trip.

– Bethynie Nelson

Charlie Mikels
I'm Charlie. Class of 2018 and TA for Mr. Grass. I'll be here to collect and publish posts for other students across our school's various activities.