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Introduction to Genocide

Armenian Genocide

The Holocaust

Cambodian Genocide

Bosnia Genocide

Rwandan Genocide

Syria Conflict

Comparing the Holocaust Photo Project

The Jewish Partisans

Reflections

Photo Comparison

1. Life as a partisan in the forest was difficult.

2. People had to move from place to place to avoid discovery.

3. raid farmers' food supplies to eat, and try to survive the winter in flimsy shelters built from logs and branches.

4. Some partisans received assistance from local villagers, but more often they could not count on help, partly because of people's fears of being severely punished for helping.

5.The partisans lived in constant danger of local informers revealing their whereabouts to the Germans.

6. Participated in the partisan units formed in France and Italy to help regular Allied forces defeat German forces. They forged documents and identity cards, printed anti-Nazi leaflets, and assassinated collaborators.

a. They were normal, went to work, had kids, did what they had to do. After the Holocaust they have to perform tasks that no one could imagine doing today. They had to adjust their lives to survive. And the amount of emotional impact you can tell is there is proof that they once didn't have to live they way they do now.

b. I can imagine this family is a lot like mine, they seem to be quite resilient and are good at hiding things that they are going through physically and emotionally.

c. What new or surprising facts did you learn about Jewish life in Europe?

I was surprised at how well they fitted into society and had much they were like any other family. And then how abruptly all of that changed and how there lives seen to become unrealistically hard.

d. Classification - The had to forged documents and identity cards to hide what they have been grouped as.

Symbolization - The yellow star for Jews under Nazi rule

Dehumanization - They have to steal and beg for the resources they need to survive.

An picture of American siblings at Charson waterfall.

Jewish parachutists from Palestine. Yugoslavia, 1944.

Compare and Contrast

Compare -

Both groups have a connection to nature

Both seems pleased in where they are.

Both seems to be comfortable where they are.

Contrast -

The jewish parachutists seem to be wearing darker clothing than the american group.

Seem to more natural with there surroundings.

The Holocaust

Dachau

"Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire."

The death toll in The Holocaust was roughly six million Jews and 11-12 million people in total, with the following groups being killed: Gypsies, disabled, Slavic. Based off of Ideological and behavior stand points Communist, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the homosexuals were targeted.

The Holocaust was a Genocide focused on the destruction of these groups by the Nazi's lead by Adolph Hitler. We then researched killer centers of Nazi Germany and created a slide based off of one.

After that we studied the lives of Jews in Europe before the Genocide in the "Jewish Life Photo Project" that really allowed us to compare lives from then to now.

Dachau was the first concentration camp for political prisoners. It was located ten miles north of Munich in south Germany. It was established in 1933 by the Nazi government and was evacuated in 1945. Liberated by the American force. The estimated number of deaths has exceeded 188,000 people.

The Passage Comparison

The Bosnia Genocide

Book Passage

WH Reading Passage

This was a dreadful event in 1991 and 1992, causing more than two hundred thousand people to die and a additional 2.3 million to loose their homes.

Yugoslavia's federal system disappeared as the Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Macedonia republics wanted independence. Conflict erupted between the ethnic groups: Serbs, Muslims, and Croats.

The Book Passage is from 'Safe Area Goražde' and The World History reading is from 'Choices Reading: Bosnian Genocide'. Both of these passages strongly relate to each other. The passage from world history reading is an introduction summary of the event. It describes the overall situation and the dates connected. The Book passage explains the reason that interviewer came to the Goražde. He wanted to know how this place has managed to survive the event described in the WH Reading. How is a place that is in the middle of everything, alive?

US Policy Towards Jewish Immigration

Antisemitism - The word means prejudice against Jews.

Xenophobia - Fear of people from other countries.

Isolationism - A policy stating separation from the affairs of other groups (Or the political affairs of other countries)

- Bolivia was “exceptional” in its immigration policy because: Bolivia admitted around 30,000 from 1938-1941.

- US State Department application of the 1924 Immigration Law made it hard for these Jews to obtain entry visa, even when there was on going persecution of those Jews in Germany.

- Nothing was done with the information passed on to them prior to 1944 when the War Refugee Board was established. The (WRB) was an independent agency to facilitate the rescue of imperiled refugees.

- The pressure from American Jews and Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury created (WRB) in 1944 it has begun and contributed to the rescue of approximately 200,000 Jews.

- The US Media did not always publicize reports of Nazi atrocities in full, and did not give the mass murder of the European Jews the attention it deserved during the Holocaust?

- I disagree with not bombing the Auschwitz, we had committed to help these people. With a common goal to reduce the amount of deaths of these Jewish and other targeted people. This meaning that bombing the Auschwitz would have been titled under that commitment at which we did not match.

- After the war, President Truman released the US immigration restrictions for "Jewish displaced persons". In December 1945 16,000 Jewish refugees were allowed to enter the United States between 1946 and 1948.

Armenian Genocide

Understanding Genocide

Raphael Lemkin

NY Times Activity Part 1

I Witness Photo Activity

NY Times Activity Part 2

" Sovereignty is the right of every nation to conduct its internal affairs independently. "

(1) I would restrict all nations to a Democracy, and that is all. I think that a heavily supported moral view will come out of the vote of thousands of people for the area, at which, they live. I think that through the opinion of the public (the people that sovereignty effects) the actions within a nation will be unable to fold. The international community should be able to impose laws when a mass majority of the population for a nation is against a law or situation that effects them.

(2) Killing a million people is not done by an single individual. It might be initiated by one, however, it is carried out by army. When you have a single person kill another, that single person is no doubt responsible for that murder. When you have a situation where there is many people involved, it is a struggle to determine who is responsible and even more, who is reprehensible. Meaning it is unlikely to charge a individual of a crime made by thousands during a situation. I think that a nation can avoid folding if their actions were based off of the opinion of the public.

(3) He could discuss and share his view, and make his voice heard. If enough people agree and stand with him something is bound to change.

(4) Without a court to punish someone for the event, the genocide has a forgotten persona. Which likely outraged many who was inflicted by the situation.

BEDROS BAHADOURIAN- (1) Was born in 1903 and have experienced the massacres of the Armenian Genocide. The memoir described when Bedros was twelve years old. (2) His picture describes him as a haunted individual, not truly proud at what he has experienced. (3) I think that Bedros whole childhood resembled the description of the story he shared. I cannot imagine that his life became easier in after being in the situation he left off. The stopping point for his story leaves open the question, what happened next? He has a stance at which seems to be seems to be embracing a impact. Which I think strongly resembles him facing his past.

The abuse against the Armenian people in Ottoman Empire during WW1 was declared the Armenian Genocide. Massacres carried out by the new Turkish Government which was in power at the time. Around one million Armenians contributed to the death toll. We then transition into reading documentation of survivors of the Genocide.

(a) Killing members of the group; 5. 500,000 Armenians have been slaughtered or lost their lives as a result of the Turkish deportation order and the resulting war of extinction. (page 2) (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;1. He was starved and hung by the arms for a day and a night and was severely beaten several times. (page 3) (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; 2. Attempts to furnish food to the Armenians ordered deported to distant parts of the empire were blocked by the Turkish authorities, the committee said, the Turkish officials stating that "they wished nothing to be done that would prolong their lives." (page 1) (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; 3 He told the fate of 1,215 men. - 250, 000 women and girls had been outraged. (page 6) (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group; 4

Our detachments were sent to that country some years ago for the definite purpose of establishing and maintain order-. (page 4)

(1) The phrase "newspaper of record" and "all the news that's fit to print" is meaning that the newspaper includes the most important news. The information, at which, appeals to the public. (2) The term "genocide" was created by a man named Raphael Lempkin in 1944. The word is such an impact based off of the fact that it requires so much specific content for a circumstance to be titled a Genocide. In other words it describes a large situation without exaggeration. (3) NY Times would not recognize a situation as a genocide based off of the fact of how much negative impact it would apply to an area. By publicly connecting a negative to a place we work with we are placing an image in the eyes of the public that might have a reaction that could lead to damaging partnerships.

I originally knew very little about Genocide before this unit. I was familiar with the word, and its connection to murder. I had no idea the amount of impact and value this single word obtains. I was oblivious to the required process and preparation that is necessary for a circumstance to be titled a Genocide. Legally the stage of genocide at which this occurs is called Organization and this is only one of the eight steps that occur.

Overview

Fact to know:

Men, women, and children "disappeared" from villages and work camps on a regular basis. Families were split up and fear and distrust were cultivated among citizens.

This conflict took place in 1975 to 1979 when the Khmer Rouge started a campaign of mass starvation and killing. Which created the term auto-genocide； one of which people with a shared ethnic group turns against themselves. The main goal of the Khmer Rouge was to remold a entirely self-efficient country.This Genocide took the lives of nearly two million during this time.

Summary

The Rwandan Genocide taken place in 1994, over the time of a few days nearly 1 million people were murdered. The two conflicting groups were Hutus and Tutsis. Non-Tolerable tension was only ever initiated when the country earned independence. While death was inflicted on one another of both groups, the Hutus were responsible for a larger percentage of losses and the Tutsis mainly suffered from it. The genocide could likely been prevented with assistance. However, no one acknowledged the event and it has scarred American history as a painful regret.

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