By Amelia Luscombe
In Week 8, the Year 10 History students went on an excursion to the Melbourne Holocaust Museum. Always a memorable and moving experience, the students had the opportunity to hear from a Holocaust survivor, Peter Gasper, who is pictured with the students above.
Hearing from a survivor really helped me understand the reality of the Holocaust and how it impacted people on a personal level, as well as a global one. It changed the way that I think about the Holocaust, by allowing me to look at it and understand how it personally impacted every single person.
The most significant takeaway from my experience at the Holocaust Museum was how Jewish people found ways to cope with the loss of their friends and families, and the overall genocide of Jewish people, by creating purpose in their new lives or creating memorials to not only remember their past, but also to create learning opportunities so history does not repeat.
