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People who flee a government or other power to escape persecution; Includes people left stateless by war or genocide.

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A World Made New: Human Rights After the Holocaust locked

 Lesson Plan March 16, 2008
America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference

81 minutes, black & white and color
Source: Social Studies School Service

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Anne Frank in the World Exhibit Study Guide

The purpose of this guide is to prepare teachers and students to view the exhibition, Anne Frank in the World, 1929-1945, while incorporating perspectives and themes highlighted in the Facing History and Ourselves program.

Anne Frank in the World Exhibit

 Publication February 23, 2008
Arn Chorn Pond: Everyone Has a Story
 Video Clip March 31, 2008

Can Journalism Kill? The Case of Rwandan Hate Radio locked

 Lesson Plan February 22, 2008
Confronting September 11: The Balance of Freedom and Safety
In democracies that strive to be pluralistic, there are often questions about the role of religion in public life. Those questions are often compounded in times of stress. What role do religious beliefs, or other markers of identity, have in profiling potential criminals? Since September the United States government has taken measures, both inside and outside of the nation's borders, to prevent further terrorist attacks on American interests.
 Facing Today February 24, 2008
Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians

Armenian Genocide resource bookCrimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians combines the latest scholarship on the Armenian Genocide with an interdisciplinary approach to history, enabling students and teachers to make the essential connections between history and their own lives.

 Publication March 9, 2008
Escape from Slavery

by Francis Bok

(St. Martin's Griffin)

In this memoir, Francis Bok recounts his story of being kidnapped into slavery at the age of ten in the Sudan in 1986. For ten years, he lived in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility. After two failed attempts to flee, each bringing severe beatings and death threats, Francis finally escaped at the age of seventeen. Now living in the United States and an antislavery activist, Bok has made it his mission to combat world slavery.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Everyone Has a Story

10 minutes
Source: Facing History and Ourseles

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
For Refugees, It's Been a Hard, Dazed Journey Into the Light
(The Age, 13 October 2007) The article, "For refugees, it's been a hard, dazed journey into the light," talks about the challenges of Sudanese trying to integrate into Australian society.
 Facing Today April 11, 2008
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