Historian Christopher Browning has written extensively about how ordinary Germans became murderers during the Holocaust. Listen to Browning explain why examining the perpetrators' history matters. Learn more »
This educational module aims to teach students about responding to genocide. Using material from the Museum’s Voices on Antisemitism, the module:
The module is divided into six sections:
Historian Christopher Browning has written extensively about how ordinary Germans became murderers during the Holocaust. Listen to Browning explain why examining the perpetrators' history matters. Learn more »
In 2004, Father Patrick Desbois set out across Ukraine to locate the sites of mass killings of Jews during the Holocaust. He is motivated in part by the memory of his own grandfather, a French soldier who was deported to Ukraine by the Nazis. Learn more »
Gregory Gordon helped to prosecute the landmark "media" cases in Rwanda–where hate speech, broadcast over the radio, was directly linked to the genocide of the Tutsi people. Gordon believes that the lessons learned in Rwanda could be applied in Iran and elsewhere, to prevent these incitement tactics from taking hold. Learn more »
Although there is not a single Jewish person living in the area British Member of Parliament John Mann represents, he believes it absolutely proper that he serves as chair of the British Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism. Learn more »
Sayana Ser was born in Cambodia in 1981, two years after the fall of dictator Pol Pot. Today, Ser works to help her country heal from that genocide. As part of that effort, Ser decided to translate The Diary of Anne Frank into her native language of Khmer. Learn more »
Preventing and responding to genocide is of critical importance today. Since the Holocaust, genocide has occurred in horrifying instances, in Rwanda, Cambodia, Darfur, and other places, making it necessary for people everywhere to unite to prevent such destruction. Voices on Antisemitism is designed to bring together a variety of people from different backgrounds to comment on why antisemitism matters today. Antisemitism, like other forms of hatred, has caused mass violence and has the potential to lead to devastating outcomes. Specific examples of podcasts dealing with this topic are Gregory S. Gordon, who helped prosecute the landmark “media” cases in Rwanda, where hate speech, broadcast over the radio, was directly linked to the genocide of the Tutsi people; Sayana Ser, who translated The Diary of Anne Frank into her native language Khmer to help fellow Cambodians deal with the aftermath of genocide; and, John Mann, who believes it absolutely proper that he serves as chair of the British Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism, although there is not a single Jewish person living in the area he represents.
The word “genocide” is defined as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Raphael Lemkin devoted his life to stopping the spread of genocide. Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer born in 1900 in Poland, fled Europe when the German army invaded and eventually joined the U.S. War Department as an analyst. In his 1944 book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, Lemkin coined the word “genocide.” On December 9, 1948, the United Nations approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.
