Consider the connection between science and human values, and reflect on how the Nazis used their beliefs to justify making mass murder as efficient as possible.
Consider the connection between science and human values, and reflect on how the Nazis used their beliefs to justify making mass murder as efficient as possible.
Learn about how Poland’s economic depression in the 1920s and 1930s divided citizens along religious lines.
Consider the ways that societies remember conflict and genocide, and think about how these memorials affect how we confront history and make a difference in the future.
Read Eleanor Roosevelt's reflections on her visit to the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, ten months after Nazi concentration camps were liberated.
From Ervin Staub's book, The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence, this excerpt examines the psychological and social background of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.
Learn about the case of Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, who were prosecuted because they violated a Virginia law banning interracial couples from marrying.
Writer Mtutuzeli Matshoba provides a vivid account of life under apartheid through the story of his friend who was forcibly ejected from his home.
Read excerpts from a plan created by indigenous youth activists to address the legacy of colonialism and residential schools in their communities.
Explore how Jewish leaders in the Warsaw ghetto debated how to oppose the Nazis.
Learn about the restricted rights and membership of Jews in newly unified Germany, and antisemitism's pervasiveness across Europe during this period.
Washington Post journalist Jonathan Capehart documents how difficult it is, for journalists and consumers of news, to face a narrative that contradicts what we believe.
Herbert Pundik, a Danish Jew who was rescued in 1943 at the age of sixteen, discusses the choices Danish people made during the rescue of the country’s Jews.