Uqi

When I started this speech I did not know much about the Holocaust. I knew that the Holocaust was about Adolf Hitler who took power and was against the Jews and made horrible Concentration camps and that it was a part of WW2. That's about it. So as most people do when writing a speech I did research. I wanted to prove that the United States Holocaust Museum was the best American landmark.

I found that the Holocaust Museum's permanent exhibit has over 900 artifacts, 70 video monitors,and 4 theaters. The museum teaches people properly about the genocide that was the Holocaust. For those of you who do not know what genocide means, it's the deliberate and systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, radical, political, or cultural group. About 6 million Jews were killed. One of the exhibits is the Daniel's story, an exhibition for children, which opened at the museum in 1993. It presents the history of the holocaust in a way that children can understand. It's the main program for elementary and middle school children at the museum. Another exhibit explores the continuing impact of the most widely distributed antisemitic publication of the modern times. Despite continuous exposures of the protocols as a fraud ,the myth of a Jewish world conspiracy had retained incredible power for Nazis and others who sought to spread hatred of Jews. Today, technology has made protocols available to anyone with internet access, and it continues to be circulated by those who promote hatred, violence, and even genocide.

This museum really affects people with the vast amount of information and for the remembrance of those who died. Holocaust Remembrance Days are April 27and-May 4,2008. The United States Congress established the days of remembrance as our nation's annual commemoration of the victims of the holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a living memorial to those who died. So the reason that I think that the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the best American landmark is because the museum really lets you go back in time and sort of experience it first hand.