点评:This is an extremely moving place. The history is dark, but I think it's so important to learn. The museum is extremely well done, and it was larger than I was expecting. It's set up so that you walk through the rooms of the fort, and each room has a display about different topics relating to the fort's history. The displays are all very respectful, and very well laid out.
I personally didn't know any Jewish history of Lithuania, and learning that history was sobering. Over 50,000 people were killed at the fort between 1941-1944, including 9200 Jews in just one single day. It's a place that really forces you to think and acknowledge how good life is today. There's a huge sculpture outside that sits on the site of the mass grave where those 9200 people were once buried. Looking at the sculpture is really moving, and I think it achieves its job of making you stop to think about what happened there. I'm attaching a picture that I took of the sculpture to this review. When I took the picture, I didn't realize that in the distance there was a family in my picture. Afterwards, looking through pictures of our trip, I realized that I captured a family building a snowman in front of the memorial. The juxtaposition of the happy family building a snowman in front of a place where so much evil occurred has made this picture one of my favorites from our trip. To me there's a sense of life going on, while the need to remember the past is still there.
翻译:这是一个极其感人的地方。历史虽然黑暗,但我认为了解它非常重要。博物馆的布局非常出色,而且比我预想的要大。它的布局让你可以穿过堡垒的各个房间,每个房间都展示着与堡垒历史相关的不同主题。所有展览都非常庄严,布局也非常合理。
我个人对立陶宛的犹太历史一无所知,了解这段历史令人警醒。1941年至1944年间,超过5万人在堡垒被杀害,其中仅一天就有9200名犹太人遇害。这个地方真的会迫使你思考,并承认如今的生活是多么美好。博物馆外面有一座巨大的雕塑,坐落在曾经埋葬了9200人的万人坑遗址上。看着这座雕塑真的令人感动,我认为它成功地让你停下来思考那里发生过的事情。我在这篇评论里附上了一张我拍摄的雕塑照片。拍照的时候,我没注意到远处有一家人。后来,翻看我们旅行的照片,我才意识到我拍的是一家人在纪念碑前堆雪人。幸福的一家人在一个曾经发生过那么多罪恶的地方前堆雪人,这种画面的对比,让这张照片成为了我旅行中最喜欢的照片之一。对我来说,它让我感受到生活仍在继续,但同时,缅怀过去的愿望依然存在。