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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance
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"Miss American"
Arch Oboler’s 1938 radio play, performed by Katharine Hepburn, pleaded with American audiences to offer more aid to Jewish refugee children. It aired as the country debated over the Wagner-Rogers Bill (Joint Resolution 64).
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Holocaust
A Commandant's View
In 1971 British journalist Gitta Sereny interviewed former SS officer Franz Stangl — the commandant of the death camp Sobibor and later Treblinka. The responses to the questions Sereny posed are excerpted in this audio reading. Stangl was arrested in Brazil in 1967, tried and found guilty in West Germany in 1970. His sentence was life imprisonment and he died of heart failure six months into his term in the Düsseldorf prison.
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Global Immigration
A New Concept of Identity
Amin Maalouf, a French writer and author, believes that violence can be a result of tensions between identity and belonging. He writes about the need to find new ways to think about identity.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
A New Generation of Young Voters Emerges
While young people have a huge stake in US elections, historically they don’t show up when it comes time to vote. These teaching ideas allow students to explore youth voter turnout trends and how young people are trying to change them.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
After Parkland, Students Choose to Participate
As students take action after Florida's school shooting, introduce a framework for civic participation in your classroom. Facing History has also created suggested discussion questions to help you have the difficult conversations that follow traumatic violent events. Use these questions as a starting point to spark a dialogue around the ways youth can get involved, be Upstanders, and make their voices heard in their own communities.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Assessing The Strength of Democracy
Provide students with an opportunity to explore their understanding of democracy and to make meaning of current events about democracies at risk in the world today.
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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance
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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Justice & Human Rights
Audio Reading of "How Much Democracy Do We Want?"
In this audio clip, an actor reads an excerpt from Eleanor Roosevelt’s 1940 work “The Moral Basis of Democracy,” which is featured in the resource book Fundamental Freedoms: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this clip, Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of equal opportunities and economic security for the strength of democracy.
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Justice & Human Rights
Audio Reading of "Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do."
In this audio clip, an actor reads a 1928 essay written by Eleanor Roosevelt titled “Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do,” which is featured in the resource book Fundamental Freedoms: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this clip, Roosevelt explains some of the challenges facing women and defines success for women in politics.
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Justice & Human Rights
Audio Reading of Eleanor Roosevelt's Report from the Displaced Persons Camp
In February 1946, following the end of WWII, Eleanor Roosevelt visited displaced persons camps in Germany where she met Jews who had survived the Holocaust. In this audio clip, featured in the resource book Fundamental Freedoms: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and read by an actor, Roosevelt reflects on her visit.
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Justice & Human Rights
Audio Reading of Eleanor Roosevelt's Speech at the Sorbonne
In this audio recording, an actor reads Eleanor Roosevelt’s speech delivered at the University of Paris, or the Sorbonne, in 1948, which is featured in the resource book Fundamental Freedoms: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the speech, Roosevelt describes the differences in the ways that people in the United States the and Soviet Union understood human rights.
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