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been there beootch

that’s so cool wow you should take me there

omg omg i want to know what you thought of the anne frank huis

It was amazing seeing the house of a family in hiding. It’s eerie to hear and see these videos of the first-hand accounts of people who knew Anne and her family. At the top of the building where Anne’s father’s video is on loop where he talks about how no parents really know their children, I felt really really uncomfortable ugh.

But the part that made my mom pissed-off (and me also) was that they talked about the Holocaust like it was a matter of discrimination. Discrimination is when two equally-qualified people of different races apply for a job and you chose one race (usually the white guy). But the Holocaust was a genocide of a people who had constantly been a scapegoat ever since they existed. At the end of the museum there was a small video gallery discussing freedom of expression and how it relates to discrimination, and it just didn’t click. Lots of people’s only exposure to the Holocaust is the Anne Frank Huis, and they could be getting the wrong idea. I’m still glad it exists, of course, and I’m glad Anne isn’t extremely glorified; she’s just a regular teenage girl.

My favorite museum/exhibit that I’ve seen on the Holocaust is definitely the Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen. It shows the sequence of events leading up to the Holocaust, and with such great analysis. I recommend it to anyone and everyone.

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