The Holocaust and Armenian Genocide reflection

My experience while going through the Holocaust museum was educational. The emotions I felt while going through the Holocaust museum were sadness and disbelief. While reading Night the content always felt surreal but by going to the museum and seeing all the exhibits I realized the trauma those affected went through. By studying the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust I better understood the exhibits in the Holocaust and I also think I could deeper connect with the exhibits. I was able to absorb the emotion and the sorrow the Jews felt while being kept prisoner in the concentration camps. In the memoir Night I noticed that Elie Wiesel did not mention the medical experiments that the Nazi doctors did on the Jews during the Holocaust and for me that was the hardest exhibit to get through because of the visuals. In Elie Wiesel's speech he said that he does not deserve to speak for the dead and I thought that made him sound humble and almost guilty for the death of so many Jews. When I thought that I almost wanted to scream “ It’s not your fault, you did what you did to survive!”, I realized that he was saying that everybody's experiences were different and he has no right to tell each person's story just as his own. In a paper called Bones I really started to notice the influence the Armenian Genocide had on the Holocaust. In the paper it stated that the Turks would gas the Armenians and make them march long distances without food or water. This reminded me of when the Jews would be split up into to two groups and one would be killed, it also reminded me of the death marches thousands of Jews were forced to go on. In all my experience learning about the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust was eye opening because the concept of living things doing what the Turks and Germans did to me was untenable but I also learned that in order to prevent anything thing like that from happening again we have to learn about and understand it.