Museum of Tolerance

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Museum of Tolerance, 2008

The Museum of Tolerance at the Simon Wiesenthal Center , 1399 South Roxbury, Los Angeles , California 90035, is a high-tech experimental museum designed by Maxwell Starkman (1921-2004) and opened in 1993.

Two central themes are particularly brought up there, the dynamics of racism and prejudice in America and the history of the Holocaust .

The Wiesenthal Center also plans to build a "Museum of Tolerance" in Jerusalem.

The Los Angeles Museum

The museum departments are:

  • The tolerance center . Here visitors are shown the principles of intolerance that are “part of everyday life”.
  • The Holocaust Department . In this section, visitors can witness some of the events of the Second World War, the rise and fall of the Third Reich and the liberation from dictatorship. Each visitor receives a photo passport of a child whose biography was influenced by the Holocaust. By the end of the exhibition, this passport and other information will be complete and the whole fate of the child will be revealed.
  • The multimedia learning center . This department is dedicated to learning and research with the help of computers. The multimedia learning center can be used online.
  • Holocaust exhibits and documents . The archives and documents include:
  • Memories of the survivors . The Holocaust survivors and their personal memories are an integral part of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. By keeping these records, hundreds of thousands have been able to hear the accounts of witnesses to the cruel Holocaust.

Plans for Jerusalem

In 2004 the Wiesenthal Center announced that it would also build a “Museum of Tolerance” in Jerusalem . The centuries-old Islamic Mamilla cemetery , where numerous important Islamic scholars and saints are buried, was supposed to be destroyed for the construction, although the museum had also been offered other locations for the construction.

In the Israeli media and u. a. the Israel Prize winner Yehoshua Ben-Arieh not only the destruction of the cemetery has been criticized, but also the architecture of the museum. Frank Gehry designed the system, which was supposed to look like a fruit bowl, but withdrew from the project in January 2010. The construction work for the controversial museum has been postponed several times due to legal proceedings. On November 19, 2008, a group of Jewish and Muslim activists in the USA wrote a letter to the Wiesenthal Center demanding that the destruction of the cemetery and the construction of the museum be stopped. On February 10, 2010, fifteen long-established families from Jerusalem, whose relatives are buried in the cemetery, presented the case to the UN in Geneva . The cemetery has been largely destroyed and the construction site is currently being closely guarded.

Trivia

  • In the South Park episode Death Camp of Tolerance (Original Title: The Death Camp of Tolerance ; Season 6; Episode 14) the Museum of Tolerance was parodied.
  • In the film drama Freedom Writers , which is based on the true story of Erin Gruwell , a visit to the Museum of Tolerance plays an important role.

See also

Web links

Commons : Museum of Tolerance  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Myrna Oliver: Maxwell Starkman, 82; Architect for Sony Plaza, Museum of Tolerance. In: Los Angeles Times. January 5, 2004, accessed February 24, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Asem Khalidi: The Mamilla Cemetery: A Buried History. Jerusalem Quarterly No. 37, spring 2009.
    Abe Selig: Wiesenthal Center: Museum not built on ancient ruins. Jerusalem Post , February 11, 2010.
    Donald Macintyre: Israel plans to build “museum of tolerance” on Muslim graves. Independent , February 9, 2006.
  3. ↑ Akiva Eldar: Israel Prize laureate opposes Museum of Tolerance. Ha'aretz , December 30, 2008.
  4. ^ Bradley Burston: Dividing Jerusalem, one wall at a time. Ha'aretz , November 19, 2008.
  5. ^ Esther Zandberg: Surroundings / No tolerance for Jerusalem's uniqueness. ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ha'aretz , November 5, 2008. Esther Zandberg: The architectural conspiracy of silence. Ha'aretz , February 14, 2007. cf. Esther Hecht: Building Israel. ( Memento of May 6, 2005 on the Internet Archive ) Hadassah Magazine 86/4, December 2004. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / haaretz.com

  6. ↑ Saree Makdisi: A Museum of Tolerance We Do not Need. Los Angeles Times , February 12, 2010.
  7. ^ Israeli court OKs Museum of Tolerance's controversial branch. Los Angeles Times , October 29, 2008.
  8. ↑ Hussam Ayloush: Political Debate: Yes; Bigotry: No. Council on American – Islamic Relations , January 29, 2009.
  9. ^ Amy Goodman : Palestinian Families Appeal to UN Over Israeli Construction of “Museum of Tolerance” on Jerusalem's Historic Mamilla Cemetery. Democracy Now , February 10, 2010.
  10. ↑ Bradley Burston: Flirting with arrest at Jerusalem's newest settlement. Ha'aretz , November 17, 2010.
  11. ^ Museum of Tolerance. In: Southpark.Wikia.com. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
  12. ^ Video clip from the Museum of Tolerance in South Park. In: Southpark.de. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
  13. ^ Freedom Writers Trivia: Museum of Tolerance. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
  14. ^ Freedom Writers (2007). In: ChasingtheFrog.com. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .

Coordinates: 34 ° 3 ′ 13 ″  N , 118 ° 24 ′ 6 ″  W.