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- Collection: Gendered Dimensions of Genocide - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)
Nyamata Memorial SiteNyamata Memorial Site, skulls. Nyamata, Rwanda.
A German woman and a bare-footed young girl from Nammering are forced to walk among the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near the town.On April 19, 1945, a freight train with nearly 4,500 prisoners from Buchenwald pulled onto the railroad siding at Nammering. The train had been…
A German police officer shoots Jewish women still alive after a mass execution of Jews from the Mizocz ghetto.According to the Zentrale Stelle in Germany (Zst. II 204 AR 1218/70), these Jews were collected by the German Gendarmerie and Ukrainian…
Gerda D. was sterilized after a disputed diagnosis of schizophreniaOn July 14, 1933, the Nazi dictatorship enacted the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases. Individuals who were subject to the…
Haika GrosmanHaika Grosman, one of the organizers of the Bialystok ghetto underground and participant in the Bialystok ghetto revolt. Poland, 1945.
Women in the barracks of the newly liberated Auschwitz concentration camp.The Soviet film about the liberation of Auschwitz was shot over a period of several months beginning on January 27, 1945, the day of liberation. It…
Jewish women at forced labor on "Industry Street" in the Plaszow concentration camp.Jewish women at forced labor on "Industry Street" in the Plaszow concentration camp. The two women on the far right have been identified as Dora…
Gacaca Report: Testimony and EvidenceThe elements presented in this report were collected between August 2007 and January 2008. The report itself was written before the publication of…
1994 Rwandan Genocide Testimony by Jacqueline HagenimanaJacqueline Hangenimana, a girl from Cellule Muremure, Munanira Sector of Commune Masango in Gitarama Prefecture, describes how killing in the 1994…