21 Items Tagged

Genocide

Hôtel des Mille Collines

The actual “Hotel Rwanda” that became a hiding place and refuge from the horrors of genocide in 1994.

Montebello, California

Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument

The largest memorial to the Armenian Genocide in the United States.

Hargeisa, Somalia

Hargeysa Cultural Center's Tape Wall

An extensive audio-only collection of cultural heritage saved from a genocide.

Holomodor Memorial

Canberra, Australia

Canberra Holodomor Memorial

A memorial that honors the victims of a tragedy in Ukraine.

Low-lying Long Island is one of several harbor islands carved off the mainland through the process of erosion.

Will Plans for Boston's Long Island Erase Its Indigenous Past?

Native American communities worry construction could destroy graves and other links to a millennia-old history, including a 17th-century genocide.

Saima Sidik November 2, 2021

A group of pilgrims collect water from the fountain near the church, which is said to have miraculous properties. The water is collected from a stream just below the hill on which the church was built. Many people carry a jerry can of this water home with them.

Pilgrims Flock to the Site of Africa's Only Recognized Marian Apparition

A small town in Rwanda was home to visions in the 1980s that, in retrospect, portended the violence to come.

Tamara Ferrari August 24, 2021

The Khmer Rouge Survivor Who Recruited the World’s Most Famous Architect

The Sleuk Rith Institute, designed by the late Zaha Hadid, will offer a different view of memory and justice.

Amos Zeeberg May 11, 2021

Project coordinator Rosy Hartman found this child's shoe at a former school site Carcross, Yukon. It's now part of the Witness Blanket, wrapped in red medicine cloth and surrounded by sage and sweetgrass.

The Indigenous Canadian Work of Art with a Life of Its Own

The Witness Blanket, which honors survivors of cultural genocide, has the legal rights of a living entity.

Ellie Clin March 25, 2021

Vira Rama's refugee ID, March 1981.

One Family’s Story of Survival Under the Khmer Rouge, No Longer Buried

Photos testify to the Rama’s journey from Battambang to Shreveport.

Sabrina Imbler August 9, 2019

Several Banda islands depicted above a port. The islands were trading centers that depended on imports for food.

The Hidden History of the Nutmeg Island That Was Traded for Manhattan

Dutch colonists committed genocide to secure a spice monopoly. But there's more to the story.

Mark Hay February 28, 2019

Luderitz, Namibia

Shark Island

This deceptively beautiful island was once home to a German concentration camp and known as "Death Island."

A present-day view of the Chatham Islands gives a clue to the island's traditional name, meaning "Misty Sun."

The Sad Story of the Moriori, Who Learned to Live at the Edge of the World

How the remoteness of the Chatham Islands forged a resilient people.

Natasha Frost March 6, 2018

The Lalish shrine.

Al-Shikhan, Iraq

Lalish Temple

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

Berlin, Germany

Stolpersteine Holocaust Memorials

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A receding field of wheat memorialized in bronze.

Washington, D.C.

Holodomor Memorial

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

The statue of a frail girl is a tribute to the millions of children who perished.

Holodomor Victims Memorial

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.

Prisoners at concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, December 19, 1938.

Found: Tens of Thousands of Previously Unknown Nazi Persecution Sites

Expecting to find 5,000 camps and other sites, researchers have documented 42,500.

Sarah Laskow January 26, 2017

Amna Suraka administrative building.

Sulaymaniyah, Iraq

Amna Suraka Prison

A bloody history is captured in this former prison turned museum.