First Person Accounts

Deli Sarkis: The Scars He Carried  (available in limited supply from The Genocide Education Project and on 

Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust provides a starting point for teachers in many disciplines to illuminate this crucial event in world history for students.

This book addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Each chapter of the book is written by a recognized expert in the field, collectively demonstrating a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. ISBN: 9780415871921

The purpose of this lesson is for students to learn about the genocide in Darfur (Sudan), and to explore the reasons why the world has not interceded when at the end of Holocaust the international community said “never again.” Referring to the Genocide Convention, students debate the obligations of the international community to intervene in Darfur, and discuss the resistance of world governments to respond.

The IHRA (formerly the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, or ITF) advance and promote Holocaust education, research and remembrance.  They also provide educational materials.

Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positive about, and then immersively imagining that outcome. ISBN -13: 978-0807067994

This article from Genocide Watch describes the resistance efforts of some who lived under the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian Genocide.

This site provides an in-depth look at the Cambodian Genocide.  It includes maps, photographs, first-person accounts, etc.