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Series
Kingdom trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jun Ironway--hacker, con artist, and occasional thief--has gotten her hands on a piece of contraband that could set her up for life: proof that implicates the powerful Nightfoot family in a planet-wide genocide seventy-five years ago. The Nightfoots control the precious sevite that fuels interplanetary travel through three star systems. And someone is sure to pay handsomely for anything that could break their hold. Of course, anything valuable is...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth...
Publisher
Ida's Memory LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A Journey Into the Holocaust is a detailed and deeply personal exploration into genocide and how something this atrocious happened, and continues to happen repeatedly, even today. First-time filmmaker Paul Bachow travels around the world and taps into a vast knowledge base of historians, psychologists, and data derived from countless interviews with experts from around the world. Facts are corroborated and woven with first-hand accounts of Holocaust...
Publisher
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The story of how Simone Weil Lipman was able to save thousands of Jewish children during the Holocaust is a starting point for an exploration of what it takes to defy genocide. The film focuses on Damas Gisimba, director of a small orphanage in Rwanda that was besieged by militias during the 1994 genocide. Learn how Gisimba, with the help of American aid worker Carl Wilkens, managed to protect, care for, and save some 400 people.
Author
Publisher
Christian Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Eric Irivuzumugabe offers a personal, first-hand account of the Rwanda genocide. As a sixteen-year-old boy, Irivuzumugabe was forced to hide in a tree for over two weeks to escape his would-be killers. In less than four months, over 800,000 Rwandans lost their lives. Fortunately, Irivuzumugabe survived and now shares his harrowing tale.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
℗2015.
Language
English
Description
With his provocative question, 'why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?' Raphael Lemkin changed the course of history. An extraordinary testament to one man's perseverance, this examines the life and legacy of the Polish-Jewish lawyer and linguist who coined the term genocide.
57) The sunflower
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to'and obtain absolution from'a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the war had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction...
Publisher
distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
This powerful and original film exposes the tragedy taking place in Darfur as seen through the eyes of an American witness, former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle, who has since returned to the U.S. to take action to stop it.
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