Preparing for the Holocaust trip

11/23/2012

 
Can reading only prepare one for the Holocaust experience?  I don't think so.  But it is a good first step to understanding. 
  Understanding who suffered. 
  Understanding who slept night after night in fear.
  Understanding the senselessness of it all.

But there must be more than reading.
There must be a journey to the Museum.
Dr. Denny

(Your task now is to place your comment here.  It must be on your thoughts concerning the Holocaust Museum visit).
Just click "comments" below.

Dani Short
12/4/2012 11:53:14 pm

The trip was exactly like Ms. Phillips said it would be, it wasn't fun, but it was an expirence. At first I thought hat was an extremely strange way to explain a feild trip, bu now I completely understand what she meant. After hat trip, I truly understand how they suffered and how it all could have avoided if only people could understand one another's differences.

Jude Mayo
12/7/2012 02:40:19 am

I think the tours should have been conducted better

Jude Mayo A.K.A JUMBO JUDE
12/7/2012 04:10:23 am

I think the trip was a really good educational experience and i felt that the Holocaust was a really sad thing but the tour guide was slow

Kyra Johnson
12/5/2012 12:23:59 am

Even though it's sad and scary to learn about the Holocaust and experience the horrors of that time, it's a powerful lesson from history.

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12/7/2012 04:13:10 am

Bethanie Cooper
12/5/2012 12:24:08 am

I wish I could have gone on the trip, but I had the flu. I bet it was really fun though because the Holocaust definitely isn't depressing at all!

Justin Jaffe
12/6/2012 07:49:27 pm

I hope this was sarcasm..

Jasper Ocampo
12/5/2012 12:25:26 am

It was a great experience and it showed me how lucky I am to have all the things that they lost and more!

Jude Mayo
12/7/2012 02:41:36 am

I felt the same way the meusem was really sad and the bus ride was too long. Dr. Denny next year you should take a plane

Andrew Collins
12/5/2012 12:25:30 am

This trip was an experience. I didn't think that I would like it, but ot was very interesting. The museum was very life like and I felt like I was actually in the Holocaust.

Matt Specht
12/5/2012 12:26:41 am

It was really interesting. Although I've been before, it was better the second time. I learned and experienced more. Over all, it's an experience that people should have.

Hailey
12/5/2012 12:27:01 am

I thought the trip to the holocaust museum was interesting and sad. The Guide talked about what the jews had to go through and what his they had to live. They talked about how the nazis were brutal to all Jewish people no matter what the circumstances.

Jude Mayo A.K.A JUMBO JUDE
12/7/2012 04:12:26 am

I just wonder what made the Nazi's so cruel to do that to innocent people like nothing justifies what they did and nothing will ever justify it no even hatred its just not right.

alexis correll
12/5/2012 12:27:11 am

its sad how all these inocent people got treated like that.

Keely Kinnane
12/5/2012 12:27:12 am

It wasn't a fun trip but it was a good experience, that opened up my eyes to actually what happened during the holocaust.

Zoë Fraser
12/5/2012 12:27:19 am

The halocaust museum was so fun! I really learned a lot. Thanks for the opportunity.

Kyle ^_^
12/5/2012 12:27:23 am

I liked the trip and I think that it was an eye opening adventure. I think it was fun but I think that it was very sad. It was so sad o see how I humane people were to other people and I think that the survivors of the holocaust should have a special little get together for some cake and to talk about what I was like for them. I hope that the survivors have a good life. The museum was sad. I cried.

Morgan Gatchell
12/5/2012 12:27:25 am

It was a wonderful experience and I am so glad that i got the opportunity to go on this depressing trip. I learned so much and it was amazing and thank you so much to the teachers that have made a wonderful memory for the students who went.

Annie Miller
12/5/2012 12:27:34 am

The Holocaust Museum was an eye opening experience for me. It made me realize how lucky I am to not be in the situation the jewish people were in.

Emily Stevahn
12/5/2012 12:28:05 am

The holocaust trip was one of those kind of field trips where it's not really fun, but it's a learning experience. After going through the museum you realized how much these people suffered through, when really there was no reason for that to have happened. All because of there race or some other reason.

Samuel Fuhrman
12/5/2012 12:28:58 am

This was a great experience for me. It was really cool to be able to experience what other Jews like me had to go through during the Holocaust. I think that our tour guide did a great job as well explaining what people went through.

Some Asian you know (Bryan)
12/5/2012 12:29:20 am

The trip was an experience

Gabby Fairchild
12/5/2012 06:30:47 am

This trip was something I won't forget any time soon. I found myself in shock at how terrible everything was most of the time. The trip made me really able to believe and more clearly visualize the horrors of the Holocaust. I remember thinking, more than once, "I'm glad the Holocaust is over." (Well, obviously. Who isn't?)

Josh kessssssler
12/5/2012 08:22:01 pm

Sadly I never went on the to the holocaust trip. I wish I did ! My friends say it wasn't fun but it was more of a learning experience .

Daniel Galloway
12/5/2012 11:32:29 pm

I thought the field trip was alright but t was a little boring

Tyler Cheapé
12/5/2012 11:34:03 pm

The trip was a very cool trip but it was sad but when were on the bus for a long time it was fun. Best trip ever.so far

Kinley crutchfield
12/5/2012 11:34:34 pm

The hololcaust museam was okay it we didnt get to finish our tour so i thought it was okay

keanu altares
12/5/2012 11:35:37 pm

I thought that the field trip was pretty cool even though the holocaust was a very dep

Fabricio
12/5/2012 11:35:42 pm

It was a fun trip and also depressing but it was a lot of fun , the part I liked the most was when I saw the pictures and the bus ride. It was fun
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Jude Mayo
12/7/2012 02:42:44 am

The field trip was really boring but it was a learining experience

Daniel Galloway
12/5/2012 11:35:48 pm

and the guy who was like the group leader or whatever was uhh a little weird

Fabricio
12/5/2012 11:36:37 pm

It was a little boring too ..

Hallie Gordon
12/5/2012 11:36:40 pm

I didn't like the felid trip very much. I've been there before and it Was great but going with the class wasn't, people were not respectful so I didn't really enjoy it. :(

keanu the best asian in the world altares
12/5/2012 11:38:08 pm

I thought the holocaust museum was really fun I had my best friend daniell with me and i learned

Your Mum
12/7/2012 02:43:13 am

You didn't clean your room

Kevin Wilches
12/5/2012 11:49:43 pm

The field trip was really hard to not be sad about. It was like being right there in the holocaust. I didn't like seeing all the things that they were being put through

jessica arsement
12/6/2012 01:08:15 am

it was very sad I was very very sad at the children's section

Marissa Hunter
12/6/2012 01:09:01 am

The field trip was very informative but I wished we could have stayed longer so we didn't have to rush through everything.

Layney Duncan
12/6/2012 01:10:03 am

The Holocaust trip was a good experience. It was very sad to see how people were treated by other people.

Luke spencer
12/6/2012 01:10:05 am

I thought that it was depressimg place to be but i learned about how terrible it had to be to be them.


Patrick McCann
12/6/2012 01:12:25 am

Agreed

Patrick McCann
12/6/2012 01:10:28 am

I think it was a great experience. I had a great time at the Holocaust Museum in Richmond. I wish that we had more time to look around to see and read the signs and objects. I actually now feel how deep the Holocaust was. The gas chamber,the tunnel, and even the box car. Reading about the Holocaust gives you an idea of what happened but going to the museum made you feel what they feel. I had a fun time

Luke spencer
12/6/2012 01:14:14 am

True dat true dat dont bring skittles btw there slippery

Maddie Leavitt
12/6/2012 01:10:46 am

The field trip was very informative and I definetly learned a lot from it. It was depressing, but it made me realize how cruel the Nazi's were.

Peyton Schools
12/6/2012 01:11:02 am

Even though it was sad, it was an important lesson and I wish we didn't rush through everything so fast.

Logan Howlett
12/6/2012 01:11:22 am

I think that it is very important that we went to the Holocaust museum because although it was a very sad experience it helped us learn about the horrible things that occurred in our history.

Zak catera
12/6/2012 01:11:39 am

The holocaust museum was a strange experience..its interesting to see how badly humans were treated by other humans

Mildred(dylan) wilfong
12/6/2012 01:12:46 am

The holocaust museum was awesome and I thought that it was a very emotional experiance how they treated the children and how the family had to live in the tunnel for 6 months wow I wonder how they felt to finally get out of that dark potatoe hole what happened if they had to use the restroom I wonder if they could not aim or if they dropped the skittles

isabelle osburn
12/6/2012 01:13:40 am

i thought that the museum was very informal and sad at the same time. i amglad we went. it was emptional.

Regina collins
12/6/2012 01:13:59 am

I thought it was depressing. I learned that they did alot more terrible things then i thought.

Johnnie Baker
12/6/2012 01:15:10 am

i enjoyed the museum but I wish we had more time.

Randy
12/6/2012 01:15:39 am

Although i didnt go on the trip the book made a huge impact on me

Brie Baumstark
12/6/2012 01:18:34 am

It was a very sad experience, it's a good thing we went because if history is not know it is doomed to repeat itself. Thank you for taking us!!!!!!!

Meredith Merna
12/6/2012 02:56:27 am

I thought the saddest part of the museum was the children, and i wish we had gotten more time

J.R. Leo
12/6/2012 03:31:38 am

I think it was a very fun trip and the best part was the tunnel for sure. Although the manikans were kinda skechy and stuff. Over all it was a great trip.

Katelyn Gable
12/6/2012 03:35:34 am

I didn't go on the field trip but the book was very sad and i learned a lot from it about the Holocaust and how the people were treated and what they did to them when they got to the camp.

Julianna Plante
12/6/2012 04:58:25 am

I thought the trip was fun but it was a sad experience. I wish we could have had more time there.

Benjamin Brotman
12/6/2012 05:52:43 am

I thought it was a chilling but yet informative about the Holocaust. I wish we had more time in each room to examen each piece closely.

Isabella DeStasio
12/6/2012 06:11:38 am

I thought overall it was good but I just wish it would have lasted longer because we could have gotten home later and then we would have more time in each room. Also I wish our tour guide was a little but better and younger! :)

Meredith Garrison
12/6/2012 06:12:40 am

I was really excited to go to the holocaust museum!! When we got there the exhibits were better than I ever could have imagined! The only bad thing was that our guide rushed us through everything so we didn't have enough time to explore each exhibit!

Jason Hubbard
12/6/2012 06:22:12 am

the mueseum was interesting i thought they did a good job of showing what the germans did to the jewish people

Bella Rave
12/6/2012 08:08:10 am

I thought that the field trip was a chilling yet fun experience. It was fun to crawl through the tunnels to see how that family lived while they were in hiding. I wish we could have stayed longer to see the museum more in depth! Overall it was a fun fieldtrip!

Willson Tuck
12/6/2012 09:14:59 am

I feel that before we entered the museum everybody was all over the place and hyper. If you could have seen after we left, it was depressing. I think the Holocaust Museum has opened my eyes and made me see the horror of what happened. I enjoyed it and can' t wait for my little brother to do it too.

Liddie Knoche
12/6/2012 09:39:54 am

I thought the Holocaust museum was very interesting and also sort of sad at times (like the children's section). I didn't like how we didn't get to take our time because we had to rush through it. I really liked it and it was overall a great experience!

Megan Dixon
12/6/2012 09:48:40 am

I think the field trip to the museum was a great experience, but it was sad to think of what had happened during the Holocaust..

Philip Usonis
12/6/2012 09:48:54 am

I was really excited to go to the halocaust museum and I had lots of fun but when I left I really understood all the terrible things that they did to the Jews and what is was like to be a Jew during the halocaust. It was an eye opening feild trip for me.

Justin
12/6/2012 07:55:08 pm

The Holocaust museum, like everyone has said, was not fun. It was a learning experience. The Holocaust was a very depressing time, and the museum tried their best to make it the way it was during the actual Holocaust. In my opinion, the museum wasn't very sad at all. I think reading Night gave me a more visual than the museum did.

Justin Jaffe
12/6/2012 07:55:59 pm

And I forgot my last name.

Ivy Corbin
12/7/2012 01:29:16 am

I liked the trip even through it was kinda depressing. It was a nice learning expiernce.

Katie K
12/7/2012 01:34:35 am

The trip was very fun but it was also sad. It was interesting to learn what jews had to go through but im sure it was a lot worse then I could ever imagine.

Alec Pati
12/7/2012 01:34:42 am

I had a lot of fun learning why the Holocaust was an important event in history. I learned a lot from the tour guides.

Trevor "Trayvon" Bondi
12/7/2012 01:50:06 am

the holocaust museum was eye opening

Noah G
12/7/2012 01:50:10 am

I thought the trip was a learning experiance everything never went into detail but thanks to the museum i now know what really happend and how life was for the jews during the holocaust

austin the troll
12/7/2012 01:52:05 am

I thought it was a very interesting trip but it would of been more fun if the people at the museum didnt yell at us for evry little thing

damien cruz
12/7/2012 01:52:53 am

I think the trip was more depressing an informal than fun( I didn't go on the field trip ).

Justin Snider
12/7/2012 02:38:32 am

I think the feild trip was good, the bus ride was not, there was no wifi and Dr.Denny stopped the movie to quickly :P

Nelson Slade
12/7/2012 02:38:56 am

I thought overall it was a very successful trip. I had a lot of fun ans thought it was informative. I hope everybody felt the same as well

Justin Snider
12/7/2012 02:39:46 am

what computer lab are you in?

Marshall White
12/7/2012 02:40:04 am

The feild trip was a good feild trip learning about the Holocaust was not very fun it was sad learning how the germans killed the jews but over all it was a good feild trip

Jenna Heenan
12/7/2012 02:42:13 am

I thought that the holocaust museum was a great experience but it was kind of disturbing and sad. I wish we would have had time to appreciate each part of the museum instead of rushing through it all

Zackary King
12/7/2012 02:43:04 am

The field trip was a great expirence but i wish we could have spent more time actually looking at the exhibits than listening to the tour guide. All in all, the tour was great.

Logan
12/7/2012 02:43:22 am

I liked the trip but the tour was too fast. Our tour guide didnt let us look around at all the pictures and props.

Justin Snider \(-.-\)
12/7/2012 04:17:41 am

I really enjoyed the feild trip. The dosect we had was great, you could tell he knew a lot about the holocaust and he did a great job explaining it to us. the museam was set up perfectly, making its visitors really understand what it was like. overall it was a great experience.

Anna McDonald
12/7/2012 04:20:58 am

I thought this trip to the Holocaust Museum was very eye opening. It made me think more about how lucky I am to not have lived in that time. It was sad but it was very infromative and I am glad I got to go and have the experience.

Michael Cunningham
12/7/2012 04:21:01 am

i thought the overall trip was very very very bad but i relly like the big, black hole we had to go into. the museam was weid because there was alot of dummie people every where and you werent alowed to touch there soupe bolwls. the tour gouid was mean and talked to us fore houars on end. i would never go agen evan if i was paid to go because i got but cramps from standing so long.

Brooke Wainwright
12/7/2012 04:23:20 am

I thought the trip to the Holocaust Museum was very eye opening. Mrs. Phillips was exactly right on how the trip was going to be. She said you would come out with mixed emoitions and it was exactly that. It was really sad and depressing what happened to all those people during the Holocaust and it was also very imformative. It also shows how lucky we are to not have lived during that time.

Andy Boeglin
12/7/2012 04:26:46 am

The field trip was sad because we witnessed what the nazis have done to the jews.

James Byng
12/7/2012 04:28:23 am

I found the holocoust musem very depresing because it showed me that horible freaking Josef Mengele who i wish i could strangel my self.

Andy the I-Candy
12/7/2012 04:29:26 am

The museum was enjoyable, my favorite part of the trip was the tunnel in the dirt. It was scary in the gas chamber because there was claw marks on the walls.

Nelson Slade
12/7/2012 04:34:00 am

This trip to me was truly inspiring. I learned so much AND was amazed by how much was kept secret and that I didn't know. I only know now that I can not take things for granted and am astounded what they had to go through. It was truly inspiring. I loved it

Princess Jasmine Bell ^_^ <3
12/7/2012 04:38:31 am

The field trip tour went too fast, i couldn't really look at anything around the room. The manequins were made out of clay so they looked kind of real. It really freaked me out though because they would always stare at me and i felt like they were going to move. I thought it was horrible how people would tourture other people. It disgust me...

Kenya Bussey :) <3
12/7/2012 04:39:42 am

the hollocaust was very graphic and it talked about genocide which is the elimination of a race and it was actually a little disturbing the way they were just murdering people and children left and right and how the soldiers were molesting young women and it really got me thinking about how lucky i am. and be tahnkful for my freedoms that seem small to me but are really important to them and i try to picture my self being in the holocaust but i dont think i could survive through such harsh condititons.

damien cruz
12/7/2012 03:53:48 pm

I think the book told more about the holocaust than Anne Frank's diary and described everything that happened to the Jews in the concentration camps.

Jamie Wengler
12/8/2012 01:07:30 am

I though the field trip was over all a great experience, but I did not like the fact that we rushed most of the time. We were not able to look around at all the pictures and objects they had in the museum.

Hannah Hildenbrand
12/9/2012 09:22:38 pm

I thought the trip was very sad but educational.

Megan Hendey
12/10/2012 01:35:18 am

I loved the field trip a lot, it was educational, interesting, and amusing. although, it seemed to be very short since it was only 1 hour and 30 minutes long. But it was very realistic and had cool stuff.

zaria gordon
12/10/2012 01:46:36 am

I thought the trip was very educational, short, and a very great experience. We only had 1hr. and 30 min. and the tour guide didn't really do a great job. personally he should have talked for 10 min. and let us walk around for a while.

mason gonzales
12/10/2012 01:47:04 am

i thought that going to the museum was a great learning experiants !

a strange person brandon
12/10/2012 02:48:35 am

wow mason ya need to pay more attetion in english cause you deffinately spelled that wrong

Ian Hibbert
12/10/2012 01:48:06 am

the fieldtrip was very depressing. but it was an expeince. i enjoyed the fact that it was all real stuff and that i learned some thing that i didnt know about the holocaust.

Christian Russell
12/10/2012 02:31:15 am

I liked it but i think it wouldve been better if we had a diferent tour guide. he was grouchyy

Casey Vaughan
12/10/2012 02:31:59 am

I think that the trip was very informational. It was a very upseting event but it was a magnificant tour. We didnt get to all of the museum though and i wish i would have been able to see the rest of the exhibits. Hopefully I can go back again someday soon.

Joey Kelly
12/10/2012 02:36:42 am

The musem was a great place to go to learn. And they tlked about an coverd everything. I thought the musem was great because the guide we had told us the things we wanted to hear an the things we didnt but we needed to hear them anyways over all it was a great freildtrip.

Casey Hooper
12/10/2012 02:36:49 am

i thought the trip was amazing, we learned amazing information , i would love to go again someday.

Logan evans
12/10/2012 02:37:25 am

I thought that the field trip was very fun but kind of sad my favorite part was when we we crawling through the tunnel

Sherman Looney
12/10/2012 02:37:46 am

I didn't go on the field trip, but the school day was relaxing and calm.

Casey Humphreys
12/10/2012 02:38:12 am

I thought the trip was fun and I learned some stuff I didn't know before.

Elaina Wilson
12/10/2012 02:39:09 am

the trip was an experiance a very sad experiance but still one im sad about all the people that died but you really cant stop death no matter how hard you try I had a good time and so did my friends some what

Chris Waugh
12/10/2012 02:39:41 am

I think the field trip honestly was a little boring everything except for the gas chamber that was pretty cool but like miss. phillips said it was only like a learning field trip

Seth Halman
12/10/2012 02:39:53 am

I thought that it was a very neat museum but we were a little bit rushed.

Jojo Acevedo
12/10/2012 02:40:22 am

I liked the field trip, but i dont think the video in the begining was cool. It was way too long and very boring. People just want to go ahead and get to see the cool stuff, not want to see a 5638947 hour video. The tour guide talked for 100 years too. Besides that, it was cool :]

JuStIn TaLLMaN
12/10/2012 02:40:30 am

This was a cool field trip and i couldnt go because of mrs. spagnolo. well that's about it i am leaving, so peace out. broskee.....
Play me on ps3 ANYDAY; PSN: JoKa-_-TaLLMaN

brandon stephenson
12/10/2012 02:45:45 am

wow you are a cornball justin

Brandon Stephenson
12/10/2012 02:42:03 am

I thought that the Holocaust musem was creepy at 1st because the manicans were everywhere but then i thought about how creepy it was for the jews during the holocaust so i figured i would be alright

Casey Luke
12/10/2012 02:43:15 am

I liked the feild trip. But the tour gudie talked to much!! And he walked soo fast we didnt really looked at anything.

Serena Paez
12/10/2012 02:43:18 am

My brother like to have choclate chip pancakes for breakfast.

Izzy Bennett
12/10/2012 04:17:51 am

I liked the trip and thought it was very informative and interesting. It was a bit depressing and sad but that was only to remind you of the Holocaust. The tour guide talked a lot but that was a good thing considering the fact he said a lot of interesting things and had a lot of knowledge about the Holocaust.

Ashley Garneau
12/11/2012 02:50:28 am

I didn't go on the trip. (:

Alex Smith
12/11/2012 06:00:19 am

I think that what the German Nazis did to all of these people was inhumane, and even though I didn't go on the trip I wish I had so I could learn more about the Holocaust.

J.R. Leo
12/11/2012 07:40:55 pm

I really enjoyed the trip to the Holocaust Museum. My favorite part was the tunnel but the mannequins were creepy.

Jean-Michael Gutierrez
12/16/2012 10:41:17 am

I though it was really fun and i got my mind refreshed by the way they taught us new facts about the Holocaust. Things like crawling into a hole similar to what the Jews had to do when they were hiding from the Nazi's made it a more intense experience.


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