On a more solemn note...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

A place that pleads to the world a simple notion: "never again".

I first visited this museum during a middle-school trip to D.C., and I still remember how deeply it impacted me. The museum's goal is to show the world as much personal testimony and artifacts of the Holocaust as possible, creating a more personal and emotional view of it. Here, those affected by the Holocaust will never be forgotten.

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, came into power in Germany in January of 1933 and later that year established the first concentration camps. Before this, over nine million Jews lived in Europe.

What I also found very interesting and important is the museum's newest exhibit, called "Syria: Please Don't Forget Us". This exhibit gives a voice to those currently being persecuted under the Syrian government and compares the imprisonment, torture and killing to that of the Holocaust. Most importantly, it puts it into a perspective and asks us why we care so much about the Holocaust if we cannot accept and aid those fleeing from the same thing happening in Syria?

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All information comes from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Official Website