Legacy and Memory
Includes individual and collective memory of historical events, and monuments.
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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 |
Antisemitism: The Power of Myth - More than a LieThe Introduction described some slanders as not merely lies but "malignant new myths" that link "classic anti-Jewish slanders with contemporary anti-Israel politics." How do such myths become weapons in a war of words? What power do words have to turn neighbor against neighbor? Nowhere have these questions been more heatedly debated than on college campuses, places where young people traditionally encounter new ideas and are encouraged to challenge old truths. | Facing Today | 02/24/2008 - 10:50 |
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 |
Educator Leon Bass Speaks at the 2008 Facing History Benefit DinnerEducator and Holocaust witness Leon Bass was honored at Facing History and Ourselves' 2008 Chicago Benefit dinner for many years of speaking for the organization. Bass captivated the audience with recollections of life in Jim Crow America and the pain created by his experience as a witness at Buchenwald, which he hid for many years. | Video Clip | 07/28/2008 - 11:45 |
Emmett Till Lesson 4: Choosing to RememberThis is the fourth in a series of four complementary lessons that accompany the documentary film The Murder of Emmett Till. It can be used on its own, but works best when used with the other three lessons. | Lesson Plan | 02/24/2008 - 14:24 |
Family NameFamily Name, the documentary, traces the efforts of filmmaker Macky Alston to uncover the history that unites three present-day families that share his last name-two are black and one is white. In the film, Alston shares the journey he took to learn more about his name, his family history, and ultimately, himself. | Publication | 02/23/2008 - 19:23 |
