Night by Elie Wiesel: The Lessons of the Holocaust
Through Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, the reader gets a sense of what it was like to be a young person caught in the maelstrom of the Nazi Holocaust and the growing darkness that resulted in a never-ending night of prejudice, devastation, and death.
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Opposing Viewpoints
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Gale - Opposing ViewpointsOpposing Viewpoints offers material to support differing views and help students develop critical thinking skills on thousands of current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia.
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Remembering the Jewish Holocaust Can Prevent Future GenocidesIrwin Cotler."Holocaust Remembrance," keynote address given at United Nations European headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, January 29, 2007. www.irwincotler.parl.gc.ca
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The persistence of genocidePolicy Review, February-March 2011
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Science in the Service of Human Rights. (Science & Technology)Richard Pierre Claude. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2003.
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Punishment and Prevention of War CrimesSource: League of Nations. "Resolutions of the Executive Committee of the League of Nations Union." Executive Committee of the League of Nations Union, October 10, 1943.
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Rwandan Genocide: "Priests, Doctors, and Teachers Turn Genocidal"Mahmood Mamdani. Book Excerpt. Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources, 2006
JSTOR
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JSTORAn interdisciplinary digital archive of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. Good for AP classes.
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An Interview with Elie WieselRobert Franciosi, Brian Shaffer and Elie Wiesel, pp. 287-300
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Elie Wiesel: Reconciling the IrreconcilableDenis Diamond, pp. 228-233
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The Triumph of Humanity: Wiesel's Struggle with the HolocaustRobert J. Willis, pp. 161-178
EBSCO
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History Reference CenterFeatures full text for thousands of primary source documents and informational texts. Contains more than 40,000 images, including maps and historical photos and over 56,000 historical documents.
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EBSCOMultiple full-text databases are available on a wide variety of subjects.
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Holocaust Education
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auschwitz, elie wiesel, genocide, holocaust, night, rescue, resistance, survivors, ushmm, yad vashem