Prevent Auschwitz From Happening Again Marc Voss

Today we'd like to introduce yous to Dr. Marc T. Voss, Founder and Executive Director of the Regimes Museum.

Dr. Marc, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
It all started when I learned about the Holocaust in school, and it was unbelievable. Merely unreal. I couldn't believe that ordinary people could become killers and torturers. Weimar Germany was considered one of the about liberal and frontwards-thinking societies of the time. How could it go from such an open and accepting society to the polar opposite, to oppression, racism, bigotry, and genocidal war? That lesson inspired me to go on a mission to understand tyranny. To sympathise what allows for horrible atrocities confronting humanity, and how ordinary people tin can prevent these things from happening in the hereafter.

From that betoken forward, I began collecting the material civilisation from totalitarian regimes around the world with the goal of safeguarding human rights and preventing dictatorships and all the bad things that come with them from happening once more. I collected material objects, eyewitness accounts, documents, and books. I even wrote my own books: in 2010, I published a report exploring how people call back the Holocaust. I found, nonetheless, that while academic books are an effective manner of contributing to the debate, they're not necessarily attainable to everyone. I wanted to create a manner for everyone to learn near these regimes, to understand what they were like, how they worked, and how they could be prevented.

The museum technically started in 2011, when I created a social media page for viewing items in my collection and open discussions about the phenomenon of dictatorship. By 2013, it became clear that the next pace would exist creating an educational framework to engage historians and researchers besides, so we incorporated and received our nonprofit status shortly thereafter.

Since then, the Regimes Museum has grown immensely. Nosotros now have a sizable drove including items from East Germany, Nazi Deutschland, the Soviet Union, Maoist China, Baathist Middle Eastward, Purple Japan, and Fascist Italian republic. We also take a growing collection of oral histories, interviews conducted with individuals who experienced these regimes firsthand. Our aim beyond collecting and preserving these objects and eyewitness accounts is to acquire from the phenomenon of tyranny and dictatorship beyond history and culture; to spread the message of hope, freedom, and peace; and to polish a light on homo rights issues of the past and nowadays.

Corking, and then let'south dig a footling deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you've had to overcome?
I started the museum with practically no money, no direction, and, though I had aid from friends, nobody really knew how to move the organisation forward. We had no feel with fundraising or finding donors, and our lath consists entirely of volunteers who are working or studying full fourth dimension, and then progress has been slower than nosotros might similar. But we are starting to spread our wings, and are doing as much as we tin with the resources nosotros take.

Another challenge has been that because we deal with topics of such a sensitive nature, we have found ourselves censored by certain social media sites despite existence strictly educational. This remains an ongoing obstruction for myself personally and for the museum in general.

Regimes Museum – what should we know? What do you exercise all-time? What sets you apart from the contest?
The Regimes Museum is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organisation that provides resource to scholars, students, and the general public through exhibitions, conferences, and a broad array of learning programs. The Museum is the culmination of an endeavor to collect, preserve, and annal stories, cloth, and artifacts from a selection of the most notorious regimes of the 20th century. It is both a museum and an educational establishment that offers resources to scholars and students with an emphasis on preserving the memories of those who lived under a culture of tyranny and repression and to preserve this history for future generations to interpret and learn from.

Much similar a Holocaust museum, the Regimes Museum researches and explores topics related to land-sponsored terror, war, genocide, democide, and man rights bug in gild to enlighten the public and aid prevent these events from coming most again in the present and futurity. The phenomenon of tyranny and repression are common throughout recorded history. Philosophers and enlightened thinkers past and present accept written extensively well-nigh the issue of authoritarian and totalitarian power structures and their impact on the human domain.

With every interview, object, and scholarly inquiry, the Regimes Museum hopes to expand our agreement of tyranny and dictatorship in both the macro-historical perspective while simultaneously revealing and preserving for time to come study and assay the lives of individuals who experienced the past first mitt. Our programs, exhibitions, and inquiry, therefore, aim to enlighten the public on a very of import topic.

What moment in your career do you look back most fondly on?
We were featured in the Wall Street Journal this past summer for an exhibition at California State University, Fullerton. The exhibition was visited by thousands in the three months it was up, which was amazing.

Pricing:

• Exhibitions, lectures, and other public events – costless!
• Guided historical bout of Berlin (hosted by World Strides educational travel company, with volunteer guides from the Regimes Museum board) – $4,000 (data available at https://world wide web.regimesmuseum.org/travel)

Contact Info:

• Website: https://world wide web.regimesmuseum.org/
• Electronic mail: regimesmuseum@gmail.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/regimesmuseum/
• Facebook: https://world wide web.facebook.com/regimesmuseum/

Prototype Credit:
Heather Moore

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