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IWitness USC Shoah Foundation

This is an amazing resource for the Holocaust as well as each of the other genocides in this resource bank. Users need to create an account. They will then gain access to a wealth of materials for learning and teaching.

Genocide

One million handmade bones laid out on the National Mall, as a protest against genocide and mass atrocities.

One million handmade bones laid out on the National Mall, as a protest against genocide and mass atrocities

Complicity

Chinese peasants gather in May 1969 in a field in Hungching region around a huge portrait of Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong (1893-1976), as they read collectively 'Little Red Book' of quotations from Mao's works

Chinese peasants gather in May 1969 in a field in Hungching region around a huge portrait of Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong (1893-1976), as they read collectively "Little Red Book" of quotations from Mao's works.

Denial

Monument to the Srebrenica Massacre marks the event even as denial has increased over the last 25 years.

Monument to the Srebrenica Massacre marks the event even as denial has increased over the last 25 years.

Human Rights

A photograph depicted Khmer Rouge victims at Toul Sleng Genocide Museum, September 22, 2016.

A photograph depicted Khmer Rouge victims at Toul Sleng Genocide Museum, September 22, 2016.

International Response

Strasbourg, France - July 11, 2015: Uyghur human rights activists participate in a demonstration to protest against Chinese government's policy in Uyghur

Strasbourg, France - July 11, 2015: Uyghur human rights activists participate in a demonstration to protest against Chinese government's policy in Uyghur.

Propaganda

Examples of Nazi Propaganda from the 1930s.

Examples of Nazi Propaganda from the 1930s.

Remembrance

Field of Wheat - Washington memorial to victims of genocidal famine in Ukraine

Field of Wheat - Washington memorial to victims of genocidal famine in Ukraine.

Resistance

This monument is to symbolize the campaign against genocide. It is a military museum located in Kigali Rwanda.

This monument is to symbolize the campaign against genocide. It is a military museum located in Kigali Rwanda.

Survival

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Catholicos of all Armenians Garegin II at the Armenian Genocide monument in Yerevan for a torch lighting ceremony for the genocide victims in Darfur. The two men are standing on purple cloth, with Garegin on the left and Williams on the right.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Catholicos of all Armenians Garegin II at the Armenian Genocide monument in Yerevan for a torch lighting ceremony for the genocide victims in Darfur. The two men are standing on purple cloth, with Garegin on the left and Williams on the right.

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