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AP Students visit Holocaust Museum

By Anthony Luu

The 8th grade Pre A/P Social Studies students visited The Houston Holocaust Museum. The museum was built by two Holocaust survivors who came to Houston after the Holocaust. Over 300 Holocaust survivors came to Houston after it ended, so Houston has the 2nd largest Holocaust museum in the country. Students went through an exhibit in which they saw the start of the segregation and prejudice of the Holocaust. Student then went into a real WWII railcar in which Jews, gypsies, soviet P.O.W.’s, homosexuals, and the disabled, mentally or physically handicapped were transported to concentration camps. “The cold truth of the horrible Holocaust is devastating, a total of 7,000,000 Jews killed by Nazi insurgents. Innocent people….murdered,” said Gilberto Gomez. They also saw a memorial room with all the names of the dead Holocaust survivors that fled to Houston after the Holocaust. In the Holocaust museum, there was so many sad and crying people, but the most solemn part of the museum was the Eric Alexander Garden Of Hope, which is there in memory of the 1,500,000 children who lost there lives through the Holocaust.