100 Days to Inspire Respect

Rose remembers sexual violence that she suffered and witnessed during the Genocide against the Tutsi.

100 Days to Inspire Respect

Gaoshan Li describes the horrors that followed his capture by Japanese soldiers while in hiding.

Students will explore the relationship between media and indifference through the work of Elie Wiesel, documentary film, personal responsibility and advocacy.

100 Days to Inspire Respect

Kitty reflects on a comment made by her uncle, with whom she stayed in London after she survived Auschwitz.

This seminar was a part of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies’ "Protecting Memory" project.

100 Days to Inspire Respect

Edith, a Holocaust rescuer, describes witnessing an elderly man being beaten in the street. When she tried to help him, someone else warned her not to get involved.

The lecture will discuss how the East Galician town of Buczacz was transformed from a site of coexistence, where Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews had lived side-by-side for centuries, into a site of genocide.
A new IWitness activity focuses on the complex situation in Hungary after liberation. Students interpret and evaluate different behaviors exemplified through the testimony and film clips and think about their past and present correlations.