Genocide/Holocaust: Websites and Links

Word of the burgeoning crisis in Darfur first came to the newly appointed U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, Mukesh Kapila, in 2003. "A young woman in her late 20s perhaps, who had trekked all the way from Darfur, sat in my office," Kapila tells FRONTLINE. "And she told me her personal story of how not only had she herself been multiply raped but also that her sisters and her family had also been maltreated in that way, and that this had actually been done by soldiers and people dressed in military and paramilitary uniforms."

Read more: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darfur/view/#ixzz3SCPJDRsV

From PBS: "Eyewitnesses and experts on the causes of genocide and the ongoing conflict in Darfur; co-produced with the UM Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies"

This is a miracle worth waiting to see. A prayer that began on the day a family was chased from their village by vigilantes. Setting fires. Their 5-year-old daughter vanished in the chaos. One of so many desperate stories in the conflict in Darfur.

A youth documentary film that will tell the children's version of what is happening in Darfur. Some of the strongest testimonies are told by the children and etched in drawings made in the support centres that have opened throughout Darfur.

The tradegy unfolding in the central African nation of Rwanda keeps getting worse.

Three young men affected by the violence have turned to photography to document their country’s resilience.

April 3, 2014 2:46 PM EDT - The 1994 genocide in Rwanda claimed an estimated 800,000 lives in 100 days. Former Washington Post reporter Keith Richburg covered the conflict and looks back on the crisis two decades later. (Jason Aldag / The Washington Post)

A site that seeks to portray the truth of the Armenian Genocide despite Turkish denials.

A non-profit organization that studies and provides resources regarding the Armenian Genocide.

Hearing of The House Congressional Committee, 1996.

An article written for the Journal of Eurasian Law by a Fulbright scholar.

The University of Michigan's Armenian Research Center provides a large list of web resources on the Armenian Genocide.

Yale University's Cambodian Research Center.

Full text booklet from the court prosecuting these trials.

Independent research center that seeks to shed light on the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot era.

A good overview with links to resources regarding the Cambodian Genocide.

Information and resources regarding the tracking and prosecution of war crimes in the former Youoslavia

Overview of the elements of the Bosnian Genocide.

U.S. State Department Report on Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo, 1999.

PBS list of resources related to the Bosnian Genocide.

Hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Committee on Foreign Relations, 1995.

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War.

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Holocaust deniers are people who contend that the Holocaust - the attempt by Nazi Germany to annihilate European Jewry during World War Two - never happened.
- By Deborah Lipstadt

Voices of the Holocaust consists of oral history testimonies gathered from Jewish men and women who came to live in Britain during or after WWII. These testimonies are personal, individual, true stories, that describe the hardships of life during Hitler's reign.

The Florida Holocaust Museum honors the memory of millions of innocent men, women and children who suffered or died in the Holocaust. The Museum is dedicated to teaching the members of all races and cultures the inherent worth and dignity of human life in order to prevent future genocides. - Florida Holocaust Museum

In 1977 then University Chaplain, now emeritus, Beverly Asbury organized what would prove to be the first of the now longest continuous Holocaust Lecture Series at any American university. - Holocaust Lecture Series

UNESCO recognizes that teaching about the history of the Holocaust is fundamental to establishing respect for human rights, basic freedoms and the values of tolerance and mutual respect. - Unesco

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is a global human rights organization researching the Holocaust and hate in a historic and contemporary context. The Center confronts anti-Semitism, hate and terrorism, promotes human rights and dignity, stands with Israel, defends the safety of Jews worldwide, and teaches the lessons of the Holocaust for future generations. - Simon Wiesenthal Center

Established as the world center for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust.

Harvard Law School's project contains over a million documents pertaining to Nazi leaders and trial information.

Provided by BYU Universities Harold Lee Library, this site contains a wealth of resources and links to primary source material on the Holocaust.

Extensive links to primary source documents, including Nazi testimonies, decrees, and official Nazi documents.