Encountering Genocide
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Encountering Genocide

Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and Witnesses

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Encountering Genocide

Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and Witnesses

About this book

Cutting-edge in its scope and approach, this unique volume offers first-person accounts of modern genocides to enable readers to more fully examine genocidal experiences and better understand the horror of such events. From the atrocities of the Holocaust to the ongoing horrors in Darfur, genocide has been a gruesome and all-too-prominent fixture of modern history. There is no better way to examine and understand these events than through the accounts of those involved. This unique collection of primary sources features 50 documents, some of which have never before been made public. These firsthand accounts—diary entries, memoirs, oral testimony, original interviews, and more—illuminate 10 genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries as they were experienced by victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. The book begins with the Herero Genocide (1904–1907) and ends with a consideration of the atrocities in Darfur. Each of the 50 documents features a brief introduction that provides basic and essential information such as who created it as well as when, where, and why. The work concludes with an analysis comprised of scholarly commentary, additional contextual information, and a list of questions that will serve as a springboard for student discussion of history and of the nature of survival in the face of evil.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface and Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 THE HERERO GENOCIDE
  8. 2 THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
  9. 3 THE HOLOCAUST
  10. 4 THE CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE
  11. 5 THE GUATEMALAN GENOCIDE
  12. 6 THE EAST TIMOR GENOCIDE
  13. 7 THE KURDISTAN GENOCIDE
  14. 8 THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE
  15. 9 THE BOSNIAN GENOCIDE
  16. 10 THE DARFUR GENOCIDE
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. About the Author