The Holocaust is a pivotal time in recent history and the Holocaust Memorial Museum is an important reminder to this cataclysmic event. Not only do I believe it is important to remember this event but 38 million people since 1993 have been to the Memorial Museum to see why it is so important to understand what this mass murder represented. George Santayana famously stated, "Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." and I fear that this may hold true to our generation. Not that we look to commit mass genocide, however, that we could forget the lessons learned from this catastrophe and not teach the next generation from the mistakes of the past. Today we see our rights challenged by many issues, and during World War II many
