Even on are off days we as a group were still trying to
understand what we were studying in South Africa. One of the experiences that I
will always remember is going to the Holocaust museum and understanding why these two events were being
compared so much. As I went through the museum I could not help but take really
long pauses as each of the stands. Every section of the museum was carefully
set up and evoke some point of the Holocaust. I loved how they incorporated the
relationship the Holocaust had with South Africa. One interesting aspect that I
read about was that many students from South Africa were sent to study in
Germany around the time of the Holocaust. Many of the aspects that they got for
apartheid was because of what they learned and saw in Germany. They agreed that
some races were inferior to others and unlike the Holocaust it was not race
that made them inferior but skin color. What I have learned from this trip is
that we have to learn from others mistakes in order to grow but what the
government did was learn from the Holocaust and internalized their ideas.
I think that was what I mostly struggled with going through
the museum; how can anyone see how horrible the Holocaust was and want to
almost recreate it. Thousand of people were murdered for no real reason. During
the Holocaust they experimented on Jews to find differences and did not say why
would there be any differences between whites and blacks. Leaving the museum
really does evoke something out of you, I know that at least for myself I left
wanting to do something. At the end of the museum I enjoyed the fact that after
you gained knowledge on all the horrific tragedies you were able to see videos
of some of the survivors. With all the hurt and pain some people did manage to
survive and are able now to tell their stories like no one else can.
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