Our resources can help you learn more about the Holocaust and genocide and plan your own HMD activity. Explore life stories of survivors and those who were murdered, virtual activities, schools materials, films, images and more. You can filter them by genocide and type of resource.
On 26 July 2010 following a trial that lasted for nine months Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Comrade Duch, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for his role in the genocide in Cambodia.
On 24 July 1944, Soviet forces arrived at Majdanek Concentration and Death Camp in Eastern Poland. The camp was the first major concentration camp to be liberated from Nazi control, and Soviet officials invited journalists to see the horrors of Nazi oppression.
On 23 July 2004 the US Congress unanimously declared ongoing atrocities in Darfur to be genocide.
On 21 July 2008, former Bosnian Serb politician Radovan Karadžić was arrested in Belgrade.
On 16 and 17 July 1942, a raid and mass arrest was carried out in Paris by French police. 13,152 Jewish men, women and children were detained. Most of the captives in Paris were taken to the Vélodrome d’Hiver (Vel d’Hiv) in the 15th Arrondissement of Paris, near the Eiffel Tower.
The Wiener Library have kindly provided photographs from the Holocaust which you can use. Here you will find images relating to life in the camps.
Andrew Sutton has kindly provided these photographs relating to the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. You can use these at your HMD activity.
The Wiener Library have kindly provided photographs from the Holocaust which you can use. Here you will find images relating to the Kindertransport and refugees.
The Wiener Library have kindly provided photographs from the Holocaust which you can use. Here you will find images relating to ghettos and deportation.
Bill Hunt and Sophie Harrison have kindly provided photographs from the Holocaust which you can use. Here you will find images relating to the camps.