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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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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World Responses
"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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A Story Only Partially Told
View photos by Rodrigo Abd depicting the aftermath of the Guatemalan Civil war.
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Additional Resources from Carlos Javier Ortiz
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Photographer Carlos J. Ortiz: Too Young to Die Interview with WBEZ
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Additional Resources from Danny Wilcox Frazier
See more resources from photographer Danny Wilcox Frazier.
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The Armenian Genocide
Additional Resources from Kathryn Cook
See more resources on The Armenian Genocide.
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Additional Resources from Rodrigo Abd
See more resources on the Guatemalan Civil War and its aftermath.
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Additional Resources from Sara Terry
See more resources on the civil war in Sierra Leone that took place from 1991 to 2002.
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