Guatemalan Genocide survivor Diego remembers when the bombing began in his village. He recounts his decision to leave home and hide in the mountains, losing everything.
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Jesus explains how some in his community thought he was "ungrateful" for helping to put a perpetrator of the genocide in jail. The man himself even told Jesus he wished Jesus had killed him so he wouldn't have to be in jail.
USC Shoah Foundation and the Latin American network of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will convene for two days the weekend of Sept. 10-11 to discuss teaching about genocide in Latin America.
Fresh off its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival last week, the documentary Finding Oscar was screened at the opening night of USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s conference “A ‘Conflict?’ Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala.”
Fredy Peccerelli Tells Story of FAFG’s Partnership with USC Shoah Foundation at Guatemala Conference
The conference hosted by USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research began in earnest Monday morning with a fascinating and at times heart-wrenching presentation by Freddy Peccerelli, executive director of Fundacion de Antropologia Forense de Guatemala (FAFG).
Guatemalan Genocide activists Rosalina Tuyuc Velasquez and Marvyn Perez delivered impassioned remarks urging accountability and collective healing at the keynote presentation of the conference “A ‘Conflict?’ Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala” on Monday night.
Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens chairs the "Transnational Impacts of Genocide" panel
Holocaust survivor George Buchsbaum describes his schooling in Guatemala, where his family migrated after the war.
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s conference “A Conflict? Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala” concluded Wednesday at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, leaving the participants with renewed energy and ideas for continuing their conversation on the genocide in Guatemala.