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Pre-war Jewish Life

A Group of Jewish Children, Lublin, Poland

A group of Jewish children, prewar, Lublin, Poland. Between the two world wars, Jews constituted Poland’s second-largest minority group. While many Polish Jews still lived a traditional life in rural towns, many moved to cities, where many quickly acculturated to modern life.

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A group of three adults and a little girl walk down the street toward the camera. A group of people walk in the background.

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Pre-war Jewish Life

A Jewish Family Walking Down a Street in Kalisz, Poland

A Jewish family walking down a street in Kalisz, Poland on May 16, 1935. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as more and more countries lifted age-old restrictions on Jews, many modern Jewish families lived urban lifestyles that were in stark contrast to life in a shtetl.

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Several people stand in a street. Behind the street stands a church.

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Pre-war Jewish Life

A Jewish Street and a Church

A Jewish street with a church in the background, Lutsk, Ukraine, ca. 1926. Despite the bloody pogroms during the Russian Civil War, Jews lived in Ukraine alongside Christians until World War II.

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Holocaust

Resistance

A Journey to Kreisau and Karski Play Scripts

Get the scripts of two plays that tell powerful stories of individual resistance to the Nazis during the Holocaust.

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A Muslim girl wearing a hijab holds a stick of cotton candy while she stands in a crowd of people.

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Global Immigration

A Muslim Girl Wears a Hijab as a Symbol of Islam

Here, a Muslim girl visibly shows her religion by wearing a hijab headscarf. After the 9/11 attacks, many Muslims notably embraced their religion in response to the defamatory statements about their community.

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A woman bends over to examine two body bags full of bones lining a wall.

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Genocide & Mass Violence

A Muslim Widow

A Muslim widow examines body bags containing the remains of recently exhumed victims of the 1992 “ethnic cleansing” campaign waged by Serbs against their Muslim neighbors (July 2001). Exhumations of mass graves began in 1996 and are expected to last for many years to come. Nearly 30,000 Muslims—most of them civilians—were listed as missing at the end of the war; most are believed to have been victims of “ethnic cleansing.”

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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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Bullying & Ostracism

A Note About Tina

In the description of the incident, and in interviews with some of the key people involved, a girl named Tina is mentioned various times. Although Tina played an important role in the ostracism that occurred among the seventh grade girls, she was not included in the interviews conducted as part of the Harvard/Facing History and Ourselves research study. The reason for this omission is that there were two eighth grade Language Arts sections in the school and Tina was in the section in which we were conducting interviews. All of the five other girls were in the other section where we were conducting interviews.

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Photograph of Chief Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz at the Nuremberg Trial.

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Holocaust

Trials and Justice

A Plea for Humanity: The Einsatzgruppen on Trial

Photograph of Chief Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz at the Nuremberg Trial.

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A man and a child sit at a table in a restaurant. The man takes a drink from a can using his residual limbs.

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Genocide & Mass Violence

A Rare Drink

Ngaujah takes a break at a local restaurant, where he often rests during the day to escape from the heat on the streets. Usually he does not eat or drink during the day, saving the money he receives for his family. The only reason he is having a drink on this day is because a visitor bought it for him. Photograph by Sara Terry.

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