The museum is done very nicely… though the content of the museum is though. The bottom floor focuses on the Olympics in Germany during Hitlers time. It was very strange looking at the press reports of the time. There were some words of boycott, voices that pointed at the Antisemitism at the time in Germany (and also how well they covered all up). I couldn’t help comparing it with the Opening of the Olympic Games (that just happened to be a couple of days ago). The “good” impression China left after the games (very similar indeed). I know, basic human rights for all are dreams for the idealist.
Well then you go up to the first floor the exhibition guides you through material that shows the various stage of the pre-second world war up to the foundation of the state of Israel. Though material that helps to understand how 'it' could happen; (actually that one feels really scary as it could happen time and again... and humans are not famous for learning from the errors of others)... Also America doesn’t look that good in the museum. In order to get Asylum to America (as a Jewish person) you had to go through a ridiculous amount of paper work (they had economical difficulties and feared for their jobs due to new immigrants)… well getting out of Germany was really difficult no country granted asylum… as I said, you won’t feel very happy after that visit; but still worth going there.
(image source: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/News/register/Nov5_01/images/holocaust.jpg)
This shoes: The last witness of the victims (before going to the gas chamber)…





