Anonymous Museum 1 The Museum of Tolerance focuses on two central themes: The history of racism and prejudice in the American experience and the Holocaust- mans inhumanity to man. The issues of human rights, racism, and responsibility are discussed. The responsibility of each individual person is to speak up in opposition of extermination of another race and stop another Holocaust. World War II and Hitler, the German leader was intent on conquests and war, but he needed a scapegoat to blame and the Jews were headed for genocide. What I found most interesting about a something so terrible was the Resistance Movement and specifically The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. I went to the museum with a date, but when we came out, all I could say was "what do you say?" He was Jewish and wanted to go to the museum for a long time and the excuse he always told himself was, "I will one day." He was glad he I had an assignment because he thought the experience was one long overdue.Between 1941 and 1943 the underground resistance movement formed about 100 Jewish groups. The most famous attempt to resist the Germans in armed fighting occurred in the Warsaw ghetto. In the summer of 1942, about Museum 2300,000 Jews were deported to Treblinka death camp (established in 1942) west of Lublin. Exterminations began in July 1942 with the arrivals of the Warsaw ghetto (Gutman,1994). The deportation of July-September 1942 reduced the ghetto population from 400,00 to between 50,000 to 60,000 people. When the reports of mass murder in the death camps leaked back to the Warsaw ghetto, a surviving group of young people formed the Z.O.B. (Polish name Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa), which translates to (Jewish Fighting Organization). The leader was 23 year old Mordecai Anielewicz, who issued a proclamation to the Jews to resist going into the railroad cars. On Monday January 18, 1943, the first shot was fired by Aireh Wil...
