Jan Karski, a diplomat and member of the Polish resistance during World War II, describes his experience in the Warsaw Ghetto and his meeting with U.S. President Roosevelt.

Scholar Margareta Matache explains significant moments in the history of the Roma people.

Elie Wiesel explains that he wrote his memoir Night out of a duty to bear witness to his experiences in the Holocaust.

This film tells the story of the people of Le Chambon, who saved 5,000 Jews during WWII.

Omer Bartov discusses how the Holocaust unfolded in the Eastern European town Buczacz.

This educational version of the documentary tells the story of the Oyneg Shabes archive, created by a clandestine group in the Warsaw Ghetto who vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda by detailing life in the ghetto from the Jewish perspective.

Edith Reiss, from Bolton, England, describes witnessing antisemitic violence on the streets of Göttingen, Germany, when she was a visitor there in 1939.

Social psychologist James Edward Waller uses the stories of the Nazis at Nuremburg to discuss human capacity for evil.

Jonathan Petropoulos discusses the choices four German artists made under Nazi rule.

Learn how the US Constitution’s promise of equal protection under the law has been questioned throughout US history in debates over issues such as women's right to vote and birthright citizenship.  

Consider the conflict in eighteenth-century US and France between the Enlightenment ideal of equality and the existence of deep social inequalities like slavery.  

Consider how nationalism and militarism in Europe in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries contributed to the outbreak of World War I.