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Lost Childhoods: Children and Genocide
Often during the study of genocide and war, the stories of the youngest victims are overshadowed by the totality of violence and bloodshed. In these resources, we learn about how children, who are frequently orphaned as a result of wars in their homelands, grapple with the legacy of such devastation.
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Read Salvaged Pages, a collection of diaries written by young people during the Holocaust, and view its video companion, I’m Still Here. A study guide to the video and anthology is available.
View The Flute Player, a documentary about a young boy who survives as a child soldier in Cambodia during the genocide there in the 1970s.
Borrow Discovering Dominga to learn how a survivor of massacres in Guatemala uncovered and confronted her past.
Watch The Lost Boys of Sudan to examine the story of two child refugees from war in Sudan.
Lost Childhoods, Facing History’s study guide to these three videos, provides lessons that help us understand how survivors have learned to cope with memories of their painful childhood experiences.
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Beliefnet Explores A Convenient Hatred: History of Antisemitism
Popular spirituality website Beliefnet features A Convenient Hatred in a slideshow that explores the stereotypes and myths at the heart of this hatred.
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Holocaust and Human Behavior
The events that led to the Holocaust raise profound moral questions about the consequences of our actions and our beliefs, and how we make distinctions between right and wrong, good and evil. Facing History’s principal resource book, Holocaust and Human Behavior, provides a rigorous encounter with this powerful history.
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