100 Days to Inspire Respect

Alice explains how feminism has positively impacted her life.

Through this set of resources, students learn about the immigrant and refugee experience, including specific definitions for migrant groups, the processes by which newcomers settle into their new home countries and the complex and difficult experience it can be.

Theary recounts a debate among her family about where to travel next as refugees of the Cambodian Genocide.

During a recent Twitter chat, #IWitnessChat hosted by Discovery Education, teachers shared how they are integrating the IWitness Video Challenge into their classrooms. Explore their insights and tips to help encourage your students to participate in the 2017 IWitness Video Challenge.

100 Days to Inspire Respect

Paul describes how he fled German-occupied Austria for Czechoslovakia. He didn't have a visa and was quickly discovered and forced to leave the country.

Path and co-author Angeliki Andrea Kanavou study how young men plucked from rural Cambodia were turned into obedient arbiters of genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime.
Though still in its planning stages, the program will aim to humanize the experience of antisemitism by sharing firsthand testimonies of people who have been affected by it.

100 Days to Inspire Respect

Benjamin Lesser speaks about how his family found a Jewish community in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Jewish survivor Rae Kushner describes when the Soviet Union occupied Poland after World War II, Kushner, along with the few family members that survived the Holocaust, left Poland to look for refuge in any country that would open its doors. Finally, reaching Italy Kushner waited over three years in a displaced persons camp before immigrating to the United States.