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Explore resources for teaching about Genocide Awareness Month, from lessons, to testimony clips and IWitness activities.
IWitness enables students to engage on an individual level with testimony and to discover connections to their own lives while developing students’ 21st century skills, including teaching the basics of research, effective searching, archival curation, ethical editing and digital literacy.
Here are recommended activities to introduce your students to multiple genocides, individual stories and the universal experience to build an understanding of the complexity of genocide studies.
IWitness Activities
- Information Quest: I am Somebody: Identity and the Armenian Genocide
- Information Quest: Yet Again: Mass Violence and Racism
- Information Quest: Hate and its Consequences
- Information Quest: Guatemala: Un Genocidio Silencioso
- Mini Quest: Divided Classrooms: Discrimination and Division in Rwanda
- Mini Quest: Arrival to Auschwitz – Hungarian Language Czech Language Spanish Language Ukrainian Language
- Mini Quest: Einsatzgruppen - The Firing Squads of the Holocaust
- Mini Quest: The Nazi Genocide Against the Roma and Sinti
- Mini Lesson: Writing Skills/ Tolerance
- Mini Lesson: Reading Skills/ Kitty Fischer on Marginalization
- Video Activity: Wash, Rinse, Don’t Repeat!
- Video Activity: Identity, Respect and Rescue
Explore more activities, clips of testimony and resources available for free in IWitness.
Echoes & Reflections
Echoes & Reflections is dedicated to reshaping the way that teachers and students understand, process, and navigate the world through the events of the Holocaust. The Holocaust is more than a historical event; it’s part of the larger human story. Educating students about its significance is a great responsibility. We partner with educators to help them introduce students to the complex themes of the Holocaust and to understand its lasting effect on the world. Learn about the stages of genocide.
Online Exhibits:
The Institute produces online exhibits, which incorporates footage of testimonies from the Visual History Archive. Recommended for Genocide Awareness Month.