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Children of Armenia

a forgotten genocide and the century-long struggle for justice
2012
From 1915 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire drove the Armenians from their ancestral homeland and killed 1.5 million of them. President Woodrow Wilson led a movement to help the Armenians but the genocide was lost in the focus on World War I and the flu pandemic and the Turks were never held accountable for their atrocities against the Armenians.

Balkan genocides

holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the twentieth century
2011

From "race science" to the camps

the gypsies during the Second World War
1997
Focuses on the treatment of the gypsies of Europe by the Nazis during World War II and addresses the questions of when they were actually interned in the camps, deportation, and extermination.

Vietnam war crimes

2006
Contains thirteen primary and secondary source articles that provide varying perspectives on issues related to American war crimes in Vietnam, the My Lai massacre, and Vietnamese war crimes.

A witness to genocide

the 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning dispatches on the "ethnic cleansing" of Bosnia
1993
A firsthand account of the genocide against the Muslim's by Bosnia's Serbs.

Children of the flames

Dr. Josef Mengele and the untold story of the twins of Auschwitz
1991
Reveals the experiences of twin children in the hands of Dr. Josef Mengele.

Nazi war criminals

1990
Examines the cases of several Nazi war criminals, describing the charges against them, and how they have been brought to justice.

Lost childhood

children of World War II
1986
Relates the experiences of several groups of European children caught up in the devastating turmoil of World War II.

Forgotten fire

2002
The story of how Vahan Kenderian survived the Turkish massacre of the Armenians in 1915.

Auschwitz

a doctor's eyewitness account
1993
Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Jew and medical doctor, tells of his experiences at Auschwitz during World War II.

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