IWitness Video Challenge winners prompt fellow students to reflect on immigration struggles of their ancestors

By: IWitness Video Challenge winners prompt fellow students to reflect on immigration struggles of their ancestors

The United States is a large and diverse country, but the family trees of many Americans are rooted in the challenges of being an immigrant.

That is a key takeaway from this year's winning entry for the IWitness Video Challenge, which invites students to be inspired by testimony of survivors of genocides and mass atrocities to make a positive contribution to their communities.

The winners of this year’s fifth annual contest co-organized by USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education attend Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago.

IWitness Video Challenge winners prompt fellow students to reflect on immigration struggles of their ancestors

BALUKHALI REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (AP) — Mohammed Hashim hid in the hills and watched as his brother begged for his life, his arms bound behind his back as soldiers marched the 35-year-old teacher away. It was the last time he saw him alive. It was Aug. 26, the day after Rohingya Muslim separatist attacks on military outposts in the Rohingya homeland in western Myanmar. In their wake, Myanmar’s military and local Buddhists would respond with a campaign of rape, massacre and arson that has driven about 700,000 Rohingya into Banglades

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