Why do we have a national holocaust museum? I still don't get it. We had almost nothing to do with the holocaust, other than bringing it to an end. Shouldn't it be in Berlin? If we want to examine history of genocide shouldn't our museum be about the American Indians and Black slaves? Isn't it a bit of a dodge to have a museum about, esentially, some eleses horible behaviour in centuries past when you are not even examining your own. I've never understood the reason for it. Jimmy Carter?
"Why do we have a national holocaust museum? I still don't get it. We had almost nothing to do with the holocaust, other than bringing it to an end. Shouldn't it be in Berlin?"
Because the function of a museum is to educate, not merely to commemorate? I visited Berlin recently, there is indeed a holocaust museum there, plus many other reminders. In Poland, you can visit Aushwitz and other camps. I've also visted the holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London, which is very powerful. It's an important event of recent history, and one from which we can all learn lessons (those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it and so on...).
"If we want to examine history of genocide shouldn't our museum be about the American Indians and Black slaves?"
No reason why you can't do that too...