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more about #genocide more comments → clockwise contemplates going counter: Her banner says "Society for Threatened Peoples" if anyone is wondering. #radovan more » ImproperDancing: And on Yom Kippur no less... more » JerseyGrrrl: I wonder why Sergei Supinsky felt compelled to add that the mourning woman is "elderly." more » LaComtesse: An amazing reading of Yevgeny Yevtushenko's "Babi Yar" read in Russian and English and followed by a piece by Shostakovitch. Incredible. [www.mjhnyc.... more » AJ: I wonder what took so long for them to excavate this mass grave? Anyway, I'm glad they were able to identify (at least some of?) the people. Maybe n... more » counterclockwise's using her promoting-power for good: Everything about the Third Reich leaves me torn...one of my grandpas barely survived Auschwitz and the other one was part of the SS. Of course there i... more » clevernamehere: I went to Auschwitz when I was 21 and that was the only concentration trip I ever need to take. I know a lot of people are deeply moved visiting conce... more » JinxyMcDeath: I too went to Dachau as a child and it was horrifying. I will never, ever, forget it. And FYI, Dachau concentration camp was in the middle of a town. ... more » marshmallory: I really, really want to go to one of these sites, because I have always been fascinated by World War II and everything to do with it, but I'm concern... more » leesie: I have never been so moved as when I visited the Holocaust Museum in DC many years ago. I actually had to leave the building and compose myself severa... more » Mmmmkay (gellin' and Jezebelin): I had a memory this morning about visiting Dachau when I was 6, which is: when I was in Germany with my family and my parents told me us we were going... more » bluebears: My dads best friend from high school (who he's still friends with) has two survivors as parents. His dad was 16 when he went the forced "death march" ... more » Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: Trigger Warning I visited Dachau when I was 14. My father made me go. It is absolutely startling in its normalcy. Your feet crunch the gravel. You sta... more » sportz.star: yit gaddal v'yit kadash sh'mei raba . . . amen. more » Glitterbug (likes life shaken, not stirred): Now I'm getting all choked up. My friend recently visited Auschwitz and I've never seen her so badly affected by anything, ever. more » -
#speakingout
Angelina Jolie Pleads For International Intervention in Darfur
Today, Angelina Jolie writes for Time, "Friday is a defining moment in the history of justice." Why? Because the U.N. Security Council is getting the (obvious) results of the International Criminal Court investigation into Sudanese President Omar al Bashir. More » -
#worth1000words
Rwandan Women's Perspectives On Their Children, Their Rapes
Photographer Jonathan Torgovnik's new book and exhibition, Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape, is a series of amazing portraits and interviews with the survivors and children of the genocide. [Jonathan Torgovnik, Aperture, Andrew Sullivan] -
#dogooders
Mr. Clooney Goes To War
NY Times journalist Nicholas Kristof writes of George Clooney in Darfur: "Mr. Clooney figured that since cameras follow him everywhere, he might as well redirect some of that spotlight to people who need it more." More » -
