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Viewing Guide for "The Intersecting Histories of the Holocaust and Wartime North Africa"
This handout contains questions that guide students' viewing and prompt discussion on the video "The Intersecting Histories of the Holocaust and Wartime North Africa".
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Found Poem Graphic Organizer for “The Holocaust and North Africa: Resistance in the Camps”
Students use this handout to complete a Found Poem activity based on the video “The Holocaust and North Africa: Resistance in the Camps."
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Seeking Civil Rights
This reading describes the efforts of Armenian people to demand civil rights in 1895.
“Marking the Days of Awe in Sidi Aziz (1942)”
This document is an excerpt from the writing of Amishadai Guetta, a Libyan Jew who was interned in a camp called Sidi Aziz.
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“An Algerian Muslim’s Memories of Internment”
This is an excerpt from the diary of Mohammed Arezki Berkani, an Algerian Muslim who was imprisoned by the Vichy government in 1941 for his anti-colonial activities.
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Humanitarian Intervention
This reading details ways that Americans intervened on behalf of Ottoman Armenians.
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“Celebrating Purim in the Bizerte Camp (1942-1943)”
This is an excerpt from the diary of Jacob André Guez's who was imprisoned at a forced labor camp near the city of Bizerte, Tunisia.
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“A 'Total Violation of Human Dignity’ Girlhood Interrupted in Auschwitz (1944)”
This is an excerpt from Simone Lagrange's testimony at a war crimes trial in 1987.
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The Legacy of a Witness
Learn about Armin Wegner's efforts to raise consciousness about the Armenian massacres.
![Photographer Armin T. Wegner, 1916 in Bagdad](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-06/Armintwegner1890s_Website.jpg?h=d5b820fb&itok=zePU_efS)
The Legacy of a Witness (en español)
Learn about Armin Wegner's efforts to raise consciousness about the Armenian massacres. This resource is in Spanish.
![Photographer Armin T. Wegner, 1916 in Bagdad](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-06/Armintwegner1890s_Website.jpg?h=d5b820fb&itok=zePU_efS)
Custom and Conscience: Margot Stern Strom reflects on growing up in Memphis, TN in the 1950s
Margot Stern Strom, the founder and President Emerita of Facing History & Ourselves, describes growing up in Jim Crow-era Memphis.
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