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For my historical event I chose to visit the Museum of Tolerance which is a museum that focuses on the world problems and disasters but also has exhibits on the holocaust. I found the exhibit on the holocaust very interesting which is why I spent most of my time there. We started by getting a card of a jewish person, mine was a child named Emmanuel Alper (1927-1942) that lived in Pinsk, Poland and was under Russian Rule after the Soviet-German pact but later in July 1941 went under German command and father was murdered because he did not want to be Jewish Council for the planned murder, so he was killed by Nazis. Emmanuel, his sister and mother were sealed into the ghetto and eventually was murdered by Germans at the age of fifteen. This museum was very depressing but interesting to see the evolution of the holocaust. There were actual archival items from that time, one that I found interesting is a piece of braided hair in the display case; that braid represented a person that was once alive and experienced the holocaust, helping prove that it did happen. This class has taught me to see history in a different perspective. For example, the Museum was made in honor of Simon Wiensenthal which was a Jewish man who survived the holocaust but also went on to hunt for Nazis all over Europe and other parts of the world.One of them was the man who arrested Anne Frank, Karl Joseph Silberbaur. Lived in Vienna and when Wiesenthal sent him to trial, Franks father Otto Frank said he just did his job and it was the Gestapo’s fault. He wanted to bring justice for the Jews that past but also knowledge for future generations about the holocaust to prevent another genocide. Knowing where the knowledge came from is important to see if the museum is credible but as I did research it showed that there is credibility. Future historians can visit the museum and get a different perspective by getting a closer look into the holocaust.