Holocaust Museum

Today, we went to the Holocaust Museum in downtown St. Pete. First impression before actually getting inside to see the exhibits, tight security- phones off, book bags left upfront. It was more like they expected someone to take something. Kinda of weird. Once inside, I able to read and look at the different exhibits. It made me think how could someone do this to another human being. Like I don't think it physically possible. Something, I learned from the museum was that Jehovah's Witnesses played a big part in the concentration camps. I didn't know that they too were prisoners and forced to wear purple triangles. The Jehovah's Witness refused to join the Nazi because they do not believe in war so they were arrested and placed in concentration camps, their children were placed in youth camps. Their businesses were shut down, bank accounts frozen. But that didn't stop them from getting their voices heard. They used literature as a means of communication to the outside. They kept hope alive in the Jews placed in the concentration camps. What was most interesting was that they were given a choice of being free unlike the Jews. All they had to do was join Hitler but they did not so they received just as much hatred as the Jews. It shows that they had a lot of respect for themselves and beliefs

http://jehovah.to/gen/holocaust/index.htm
A link for a little info about what the Jehovah's Witnesses went through.
http://www.jewishmemory.info/images/2000-2999/2154/1.jpg.jpg
A picture of what they wore on their clothing.