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Personal Narrative: My Visit To The Holocaust Museum
I went to the Holocaust museum on Sunday May 21st. The museum is located on Orchard Lake Rd. in Farmington. My mother went with me to the museum. We decided to go on our own instead of doing a guided tour.
At the front of the museum they had several displays of religious function, as well as a display of what the original Tanakh would have looked like. The Tanakh is the religious writing for judaism, like the Bible for Christianity. They had several other exhibits, most of them talked about the war, or how the Jewish people were miss treating in the concentration camps. The most interesting part of the museum for me was the exp bit that talked about what was really going in in the concentration camps, with all the deaths and they placed

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