The Project Begins!


This morning, my group and I had a chance to meet up at the Kennesaw Museum of History and Holocaust Education. It was not my first time at the facility. A couple years ago, I had the opportunity to do a summer workshop camp with other Cobb County Students. Throughout the week at that workshop, I learned a lot about the holocaust, met holocaust survivors, and had a chance to meet the exhibit coordinator and see the work that goes into creating the museum.

It was great being able to return to the museum. Although it is small, it does an incredible job of achieving its purpose- informing the public on how the Holocaust happened, what happened during it, and the effects the Holocaust had on the world. It looks at World War II from not just a global view, or view from the U.S, but also a local Georgian view on our participation in World War II.

            The museum uses many kinds of materials to educate its guests on the Holocaust. It uses multiple archives throughout the exhibits, interactive components, and art to communicate the impact of the Holocaust. A major part of the museum is the Parallel Journey exhibit, which looks at multiple people who were involved in the Holocaust and how they were involved in it. One of my favorite parts of this exhibit was the art at the end of the Parallel Journeys exhibit. It had multiple works of art, each focusing on a different important figure from the Holocaust – including Anne Frank and Hitler. On the bottom of each figure, it showed their inward emotions and as it progressed to the top of the figure, it had symbols for how they reacted outwardly to those emotions. It was a really unique way to look at the qualities of the people who were involved in the event.

The museum in general is well organized. It is obvious that the museum creators took a lot of time in order to put it together. They read multiple biographies and took time to speak to actual Holocaust survivors, to make sure everything is accurate. The only thing that seemed a little out of place was how the two exhibits were not connected due to construction. We had to leave the Parallel Journeys exhibit and walk through the Georgia Journeys backwards to see everything. Overall, everything is well organized though, and it gives a great broad, educational overview of the Holocaust and the impact it had. I think for someone who wants an in-depth view of the Holocaust, it may be better for them to go to a larger exhibit, like the one in D.C, my favorite museum of all time. However, I find this is a great, smaller exhibit for our community to see a broad overview of one of the most historically significant events of all time.


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