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Burma’s Path to Genocide
ChaptersPersonal Stories
  • Haunted by Loss
  • Visible and Invisible Scars
  • Holding a Family Together
  • A Young Life Interrupted
  • Safeguarding Life
  • Remembering When They Belonged
  • Haunted by Loss
  • Visible and Invisible Scars
  • Holding a Family Together
  • A Young Life Interrupted
  • Safeguarding Life
  • Remembering When They Belonged
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Young women walk next to a dirt road balancing their belongings on their heads.

Personal Stories

These members of the Rohingya community lived in the village of Maung Nu in Burma. It was one of hundreds of villages the Burmese military attacked in August 2017. On that day of violence, the Burmese military destroyed their homes, schools, and mosques. Up to 100 people were killed in Maung Nu.

They are among the more than 700,000 Rohingya who have fled Burma since 2017. These stories show what their lives were like before and how decades of persecution culminated in genocide.

  • Haunted by Loss
  • Visible and Invisible Scars
  • Holding a Family Together
  • A Young Life Interrupted
  • Safeguarding Life
  • Remembering When They Belonged

Burma’s Path to Genocide
An online exhibition from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • Chapters
    • I: Belonging
    • II: Targeted
    • III: Weakened
    • IV: Destroyed
    • V: Surviving
    • Personal Stories
    • Haunted by Loss
    • Visible and Invisible Scars
    • Holding a Family Together
    • A Young Life Interrupted
    • Safeguarding Life
    • Remembering When They Belonged
    • Timeline
    • More Resources
    • About This Site
    • Teacher Resources
    • All Online Exhibitions from USHMM (opens in new tab)
    • Country Case Study: Burma (opens in new tab)
    • Holocaust Encyclopedia: Atrocities Against Burma’s Rohingya Population (opens in new tab)
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