Room Four: Deportation and Extermination at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
This is the fourth room of the museum.
"When victims disembarked from the trains carrying them from ghettos or forced collection points across Europe, they entered an upside down world. The innocent people found themselves at the mercy of the true criminals. The universe created by those criminals focused not on sustaining life, but on committing murder as efficiently as possible. The Nazis created six camps specifically for this purpose: Auschwitz, Belzetz, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka. Victims were processed in varying ways. People were first separated by gender, thus breaking apart families. The Nazis then divided each group, sending some people to the left and others to the right; one direction meant death within hours. Without their knowing it, children, the sick or injured and older people were almost always sent this way. They would be separated from their belongings, forced to remove their clothes, and told they had to shower before being sent to barracks. The showers were in fact gas chambers in disguise. In this room, which connects directly to the next one, Labor/Concentration/Death Camps, visitors see displays highlighting many of the countries from which the Nazis deported their victims. 18 interactive monitors provide multi-media information on individual camps. These camps were chosen as examples of the literally hundreds of camps the Nazis created.”
Works Cited:
"Virtual Tour - LAMH." Virtual Tour - LAMH. Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust , n.d. Web. 3 Mar. 2017. <http://www.lamoth.org/exhibitions/virtual-tour/>.