An online companion to the book The Children of Willesden Lane. This powerful true story of Lisa Jura, one of 10,000 young refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Vienna on the Kindertransport as a child before World War II.
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Music, Memory, and Resistance during the Holocaust
Explore with your students the lives of Jews before World War II and examine music as a form of resistance.
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The Aftermath Project: War is Only Half the Story
War is only half the story. Use these evocative photographs with your students to explore the human stories that emerge in the aftermath of war and violence.
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The Nanjing Atrocities: Crimes of War
The online companion to our Nanjing Atrocities book includes maps, images, timelines, and readings for students to gain a deeper understanding of East Asia during World War II.
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Holocaust
The Weimar Republic: The Fragility of Democracy
This rich collection of readings, artwork, primary documents, and biographies, documents the creativity and catastrophe of Germany’s Weimar Republic (1919-1933). How did individual choices shape the events that led to the rise of the Third Reich and collapse of democracy?
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The Armenian Genocide
1908-1914 Shift to Young Turks
Dr. Richard Hovannisian, professor of Near Eastern Studies at UCLA, speaks about the radicalization of the Young Turks in the Ottoman Empire from 1908-1914.
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The Nanjing Atrocities
A General's Responsibility: Matsui, Nanjing, and the Tokyo Trial
Scholar Beth Van Schaack discusses General Matsui Iwane’s involvement in the Nanjing atrocities.
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Albie Sachs in Conversation with Facing History Student
In this clip, The Honorable Albie Sachs addresses questions from San Francisco Bay Area Facing History student Abigail B. at the 2014 San Francisco Bay Area Benefit Dinner.
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The Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide Video Series Trailer
This brief film provides an introduction to Facing History's suite of videos exploring the history of the Armenian Genocide.
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Transforming Germany in the 1930s
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Art as Propaganda: The Nazi Degenerate Art Exhibit
Jonathan Petropoulos discusses the importance of the German 1937 Degenerate Art exhibit.
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Art, Imagination, and the Quest for Racial Justice
In this Teaching Idea, students learn about the power of art as a tool for social change and explore how Black Lives Matter activists are using art in the fight for racial justice.
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Attacks on Houses of Worship
Facilitate discussion in your classroom around the recent attacks in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim places of worship, and explore with students how communities respond after incidents of hate.
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