Journalists and media professionals discuss the benefits and challenges of using social media to report and understand any fast-moving story.
The Bielski brothers led a group of partisans responsible for saving more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.
Dr. Hong Zheng recalls the fate of his uncle’s family in Hong Kong during the Second Sino-Japanese War, when Japanese soldiers enter and search their home. Another family, thousands of compatriots, and British POWs, also cannot escape the violence.
Historian, and researcher-curator at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Dr. Karine Duhamel, details the Indian Act of Canada.
During our webinar "A Conversation with Steven Spielberg" on November 29, 2018, Mr. Spielberg discussed the urgency of Oskar Schindler's story and of those he saved, particularly in these politically and socially fraught times.
Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China Rana Mitter explains the Nanjing atrocities.
This documentary traces the life of Leilani Muir, the first person to file a lawsuit against the Alberta government for wrongful sterilization, and provides background on the history of eugenics in the early 1900s.
Former Jewish partisan Aron Bell discusses the various acts of sabotage that partisan groups performed against the Nazis.
Former Jewish partisan Aron Bell describes the Bielski group's commitment to saving the lives of Jews.
Listen to the introduction from day one of the UDHR Workshop.
The horrors of World War II, the new and frightening power of the atomic bomb, and the Nazi genocide of Jews and of others deemed unworthy to live shocked the consciences of people all over the world in 1945. This capacity and desire to destroy whole populations of humanity prompted First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to warn that "In the end...we are 'One World' and that which injures any one of us, injures all of us."
Welcome to Day 3. Today we’ll focus on reasons human rights was controversial in the post-war United States and why “civil” rights, instead, became the focus. This session will also model a literacy strategy known as close read activity.