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How graphic is the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C? |
Travel Info Is it filled with very shocking/disturbing pictures or videos? Are the very graphic pictures necessary to see? Are the majority of the pictures disturbing? Is there a lasting after-affect? Is it recommended for sensitive people? Travel Tips There are a few graphic photos - Particularly avoid the exhibit associated with Dr. Mengele. If you are careful you can easily miss them. There is a room where holocaust survivors describe (audio-no pictures) what happened to them and others in Auschwitz. This is disturbing to me - but not graphic because not visual. The vast majority of the exhibits are not graphically gory. However, the Holocaust as a subject is by it's nature disturbing - whether you look at the most shocking pictures or not. One tower is filled with the pictures of people - and here we are talking pictures during good times, portraits, family pictures, children playing, Bar Mitzvah, weddings, happy times. The entire village, all the people in the picture, were murdered by the Nazis. That is pretty disturbing. I hope there is a lasting after-effect in that we feel strongly we should never let this happen again (but it's happening again right now in Darfur!!!). Will it scar you emotionally? Probably not. I recommend this museum to everyone, I think it is something we all must see. However, if you are overly concerned, you should think about just seeing Daniel's Story, an exhibit designed for the finer sensibilities of children under 12. Or just visit the memorial part. The shoes here are nothing compared to the shoes on exhibit in Auschwitz! For the original poster - there is nothing intrinsically shocking about the shoes - just that they represent folks who were gassed. Source(s): I've visited the museum several times. Other Travel Tips I have not been, but plan on going soon. I feel a spiritual duty to keep mindful of what happened when too many people did nothing until it was too late. My daughter was in her thirties and took her 10 year old son,[a very mature 10.] She was so affected she worried about her son. He is now a very mature and caring seventeen yr. old. He remembers, and said he wants to go again, now that he is older. I saw no negative effect on him, but that was him. My daughter was very emotional about the shoes. She said that really broke her heart and she couldn't get it out of her mind. So many little shoes. Many of the pictures are shocking in nature, but because the events they depict are as well, it's more moving than shocking. The middle floor get get a bit graphic, but it's really something that needs to be seen. If you really get a bit queasy, there are places to sit down, and you can not look at those particular pictures (I've been multiple times, and the first time, that happened to me). Each person is given an identity when they enter the main exhibit, so they follow along with the life of that real person. If your person dies, it can have a lasting after effect. The pictures themselves can do that too, especially if you knew that it was atrocious, but had never seen it with your own eyes. And even if a person is sensitive, they really should go, nonetheless. I've seen many people crying when they leave the exhibit, which I think is actually a good thing. All in all, it's something that I believe that everyone should go see. It is very heartwrenching and some pictures/areas are graphic. I consider myself a sensitive person, it was hard for me to watch some of the things and to think about what someone had to go through, myself nor my family have been affected but it makes you disturbed that someone would inflict pain upon a culture. It also gives you a certain understanding about what they went through and a certain perspective. |
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