Judgment, Memory & Legacy
As students confront the terrible human atrocities of the Holocaust, and other historical case studies, they explore the meaning of concepts such as guilt, responsibility, and judgment—and what those concepts mean in our world today. Students also discover that one way of taking responsibility for the past is to preserve its memory. They explore the importance of monuments and memorials as communal gestures of remembering, of acknowledging injustice, and of honoring individuals and groups who have suffered.
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A Problem from Hell: A Conversation with Samantha Power, Part 1Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of Practice Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, discusses crimes against humanity and the dynamic of generalized versus particular responses. | Video Clip | 03/13/2008 - 11:28 |
A Problem from Hell: A Conversation with Samantha Power, Part 2Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of Practice Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, discusses the continuum of possible intervention by nations when observing genocide in the world. | Video Clip | 03/13/2008 - 11:24 |
A Problem from Hell: A Conversation with Samantha Power, Part 3Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of Practice Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, describes the paralyzing nature of genocide and its effect on intervention. | Video Clip | 03/13/2008 - 11:30 |
A Problem from Hell: A Conversation with Samantha Power, Part 4Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of Practice Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, discusses the Genocide Convention and the genesis of the term "genocide," coined by Rafael Lemkin in 1944. | Video Clip | 03/13/2008 - 11:16 |
A World Made New: Human Rights After the Holocaust
This lesson
encourages students to explore the historical basis for the modern
human rights movement born in the aftermath of the Holocaust and
deepens understanding of the Charter for the United Nations and the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). | Lesson Plan | 03/16/2008 - 23:52 |
Anne Frank Exhibit in Church Aims for Message of Tolerance(January 5, 2008, The Boston Globe) In Liverpool, England, an exhibit of a recreation of the bedroom where Anne Frank wrote her diary recently opened. In "Anne Frank exhibit in church aims for message of tolerance," the city hopes that this exhibit will help build tolerance among rival gangs in the community. | Facing Today | 04/10/2008 - 10:10 |
Armenian Genocide Lesson Eight: Denial and Free SpeechDuring the ninety-one years since the beginning of the Armenian Genocide, officials from the Ottoman government, and later from the Republic of Turkey have refused to acknowledge the mass murder and deportation of Armenians and others constituted genocide. | Lesson Plan | 03/19/2008 - 14:36 |
Arn Chorn Pond: Everyone Has a StoryMost of Arn Chorn's family was killed during the Cambodian genocide. At age ten he had slaved in a work camp, witnessing wide-scale starvation and murder. When the North Vietnamese invaded Camboida, the Khmer Rouge forced his to become a soldier until he escaped on foot through the jungle in Thailand. | Video Clip | 03/31/2008 - 10:36 |
Building a "Toolbox for Difference"
This project helps students connect their studies of race and gender with their sense of civic obligation and their desire to help prevent the reoccurrence of violence and intolerance. In her directions to her students, Adrianne Billingham, an educator at Lexington High School (MA) who developed this concluding activity, writes, ". | Lesson Plan | 02/22/2008 - 17:59 |
Cambodian Justice Moves Forward(Christian Science Monitor, November 21, 2007) The article, "Cambodian justice moves forward," describes the war crimes tribunals in Cambodia, the first legal proceeding in Cambodia's history where Cambodians themselves controlled the majority of judges. | Facing Today | 04/18/2008 - 12:08 |
