I took a visit to a Jewish museum in which I learned a lot of close details I had not known before about the holocaust. I visited with my art history class and we got to look at original pajamas from the holocaust. We also saw original art pieces created by artists criticizing the nazis. Before art history I saw an art piece and I moved on without much thought. I just looked at the painting in face value. As I have gone through art history, I have learned the appreciation of art. The meaning and reasons behind why a painting is created is enough of an interesting story to me to look at it longer. It was really cool seeing pieces we discussed in class in person hanging on the walls of the museum. One of the pieces that stuck out to me was a depiction of nazi brutality in the form of a man being strangled by a brown bag. The words written on this artwork is what is important as it described Czechoslovakia a place that hitler decided to just pillage the entire village. The nazis left no women or children alive as well. The fact that my friends were along with me for the ride was fun too. What was really special about this visit was the fact we had a holocaust survivor come speak to us. The fact that the lady speaking to us was flesh and blood from the history of the holocaust was a complex thought to wrap my head around. She is also a baruch alumni. Here are some selfies that I took real quick because I was paying attention to the speaker. As you can see our fellow peer Jordan is in the picture.
hey jordan
