Why a Jewish Holocaust museum in D.C. when it happened in Europe? Why no DC museum for US Slavery holocaust?

Question

Why a Jewish Holocaust museum in D.C. when it happened in Europe? Why no DC museum for US Slavery holocaust?

Answer 1

why have an art museum? it's stacked with european art anyway...

The outside world matters to some.

Answer 2

Sick demented racists claim Black Slavery in America isn't a holocaust. The murder of Jews in concentration camps lasted less than 4 years. Slavery for life, murder, torture, and atrocities against blacks was legal within the boundaries of the present United States from 1654 until 1865. If you have a subatomic particle of decency in your being; please tell me honestly which was the more horrific Holocaust.  

Answer 3

The jews have better PR than the blacks.

Answer 4

slavery isn't a holocaust, I'm not saying its at all right, but they are no where near the same. Also, many Jews fled to the U.S.  

Answer 5

A very intelligent question. It would be much more appropriate to have a museum about our own "black" history.

Answer 6

Milwaukee has a Black Holocaust museum. Washington D. C has a civil rights museum.

Answer 7

I agree there should be a national museum about slavery in the US, but that doesn't mean that the Holocaust Museum shouldn't be there. In Europe there are also many museums related to the Holocaust and there are the former concentration camps that are kept as memorial sites and have museums associated to them.

I agree with the answerer who said "the outside world matters to some" and also many Holocaust survivors went to the US after the war so it is at least the history of some Americans and it is definitely a very important event in world history that needs to be remembered.

Answer 8

Behold the political power of Jews.....

Answer 9

You should go to the Congo.  There is a "Slavery" museum there.  It's amazing (talking with the curator) the difference between the "Facts" as we know them here (popular belief) and the facts presented there.  If you are truly interested in reading about slavery and the Antebellum South, please feel free to e-mail me, I've a number of books I can recommend.