Teachers at Animo Jackie Robinson Charter High School use our Holocaust and Human Behavior resource and journey of discovery about oneself and others ("Scope and Sequence") to help students think critically about history and make informed choices.
Leon Bass describes his encounters with racism when he joined for the U.S. Army in 1943.
Aung Khine M. explains how Facing History helped him learn the power of language.
This documentary uses diary entries of youth who lived during the Holocaust and powerful images to teach a new generation about the pain of the past and hope for the future.
Samuel Bak explains his life growing up in Vilna, and explores his art as it relates to Facing History
Former Jewish partisan Aron Bell describes how weapons were essential to the life of a partisan.
Professor Jonathan Petropoulos discusses the moral challenges faced by three cultural figures living in Nazi Germany, writer Gottfried Benn and artists Emil Nolde and Max Beckmann.
From the film "The Reckoning" , International prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo tells the story of the 2005 International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecution of war crimes in Darfur.
Holocaust survivor Barbara Turkeltaub was a very young girl in Vilna when her parents put her in a convent with Catholic nuns.
Bernard Storch describes his experience entering and liberating Majdanek extermination camp.
Holocaust survivor Jack Arnel describes the German invasion of his hometown of Vilna, Lithuania. Credit: USC Shoah Foundation
Moshe Shamir was 19 years old and living in Czernowitz, in western Ukraine, when the Germans found him in 1941.