The museum helps students explore the connections between prejudice, anti-Semitism and the murder of more than six million Jewish people and so many others.
“We know that was a lie cause this is the guy who gave the orders to kill those half a million Hungarian Jews,” Schneider says to the group of students looking at a photograph of the convicted Nazi.“I want you to think about that because you’re young people, you're all gonna be getting orders and giving orders and what those orders are and how you carry them out is going to be the measure of who you are,” Schneider tells the students.
Students don't understand what these hate symbols mean, where they came from, and so, therefore, they don't understand the harm that they're committing.In one of its rooms, HMLA has 18 interactive kiosks propped up on metal stands. Each screen represents a different concentration camp. Each has information on how many people were killed at that camp, what country it was located in, and photos from inside.
“I was 5 years old when the war broke out,” Hyatt tells the students. “What happened was that Hitler, who had become the thing in Europe, gave a speech every Sunday night and every Sunday night we had new rules, new regulations, new restrictions. And so this affected everyone, every family.” But the students have some questions. One Valley High student asks, if she were able to, what’s something she would ask Hitler.
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