The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, found in Washington, D.C., fully describes the Holocaust that took place during the Nazi reign, which started in 1933 and came to an end in 1945. Abstract and novel plans were used to construct the museum. This structure was constructed in a way that it gives meaning to the history the museum addresses. The architect, James Ingo Freed, wanted visitors to have their understanding of the building’s elegant symbols and metaphors as engines for thought and self-examination. Limestone covers the outer sides of the museum, except the north side of the building. A large entrance fronts the 14 th street to the east. The roof of the museum on the north side is made in a pyramid shape with four towers that are made of red bricks. The 14 th street entrance has squared arches, cubed lights, and window grating, which are a mere illusion. Visitors must go through the limestone divisions to come into a concrete structure. The Hall of the Witness, which is found in the interior part of the museum, is a three-story, sky-lit assembling place. Visitors who get in from the 14 th street move through a canopied entryway and then cross over a raw steel dais into the hall. This is a transitional entrance, separating and shifting the visitors from the outside world. The construction methods used in the building borrow from the industrial past. Techniques that are old fashioned are noticeable in the Hall of Witness. They include bolted metals, steel plates, and rivets. This kind of architectural language signifies ironic criticism of early modernism’s elevated ideals of reason and sequence, which were used to build the factories of death. The fissure represents a sense of alteration, imbalance, and rupture, which are characteristics of the society where the Holocaust happened. The design features that fill the hall of witness and reappear throughout the building represent the tragic thesis of the Holocaust. Black granite makes the west wing of the hall while the East wall is made of white marble, which signifies that the west wall is threatening while the east wall is hopeful ( United States Holocaust Memorial Museum , 2016). The museum houses a host of features and historical events, which comprise of the prewar life in Europe and North Africa and the rise of the Nazi reign. There is also Nazi’s racial propaganda that led to the killing of the Jews ( Propaganda , n.d.). The collection also documents the plight of target groups from Nazi-occupied Europe and refugee communities in different countries, the global response to the rise of Nazism, followed by the persecution of the Jews, and Nazi’s occupation policies and customs. There are also roundups, extraditions, and execution of the European Jewry, mass shootings carried out by the mobile killing squad, as well as other German and native police and supporting units. The museum also contains information on concentration camps, ghettos, labor camps, killing centers, the gypsies, homosexuals, the fate of Poles, Jehovah’ s Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, the mentally and physically handicapped, and other targeted groups during the war. Other focus areas are the persecution of the Jews by the natives, resistance to Nazi guiding principles and actions, rescue