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Judgment, Memory & Legacy

As students confront the terrible human atrocities of the Holocaust, and other historical case studies, they explore the meaning of concepts such as guilt, responsibility, and judgment—and what those concepts mean in our world today. Students also discover that one way of taking responsibility for the past is to preserve its memory. They explore the importance of monuments and memorials as communal gestures of remembering, of acknowledging injustice, and of honoring individuals and groups who have suffered.

Judgment, Memory & Legacy

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa on Responsibility
 Video Clip May 20, 2010
"A Tool to Change the World": The International Criminal Court
 Video Clip June 3, 2011
"We Were Not Supposed to Think"

After the first set of trials ended, the United States held twelve others at Nuremberg. These trials were authorized by multinational agreements and based on international law. Telford Taylor, who served in the United States Army Intelligence during the war and was transferred to Justice Jackson’s staff during the first trials, supervised the new proceedings. He said of them, “The judgments of these subsequent trials added enormously to the body and the living reality of international penal law.

 Publication Readings May 11, 2010
A Commandant's View

In an interview with journalist Gitta Sereny after his arrest in Brazil in 1971 and subsequent trial, Franz Stangl, the commandant of the death camp at Sobibor and later at Treblinka, responded to questions.

“You’ve been telling me about your routines,” I said to him. “But how did you feel? Was there anything you enjoyed, you felt good about?”

A. “It was interesting to me to find out who was cheating,” he

 Publication Readings July 9, 2010
A Force More Powerful

6 episodes, 30 minutes each
Source: aforcemorepowerful.org

This series uses archival footage to present six stories of nonviolent movements around the world. Each includes interviews with witnesses, survivors and unsung heroes who contributed to these century-changing events.

1. Nashville: “We Were Warriors”

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
A Jew Among the Germans

60 minutes
Source: PBS Video

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
A Man of Words

Among the twenty-two men who stood trial at Nuremberg was Julius Streicher, the publisher of Der Stuermer, an antisemitic newspaper with over six hundred thousand readers.

 Publication Readings December 30, 2011
A Problem from Hell: Samantha Power Talks about Genocide
 Video Clip March 24, 2009
Albie Sachs Discusses the TRC
 Video Clip May 19, 2010
Albie Sachs on Building a Constitution in South Africa
 Video Clip June 4, 2009
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