Facing+History

Here are some resources for the FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES course. These resources are available in the WHS School Library.

__**GENOCIDE TITLES**__

**ARMENIA** Balakian, Peter – Black Dog of Fate Kherdian, David – The Road from Home: the Story of an Armenian Girl Peterson, Merrill D. - Starving Armenians: America and the Armenian Genocide 1915-1930 and After Miller, Donald E. – Survivors: an Oral History of the Armenian Genocide Ahnert, Margaret Ajemian – The Knock at the Door: a Journey through the Darkness of the Armenian Genocide

**CAMBODIA** Ung, Loung – First They Killed My Father: a Daughter of Cambodia Remembers Yathay, Pin – Stay Alive, My Son Criddle, JoAn D. - To Destroy You Is No Loss: the Odyssey of a Cambodian Family Keat, Nawuth - Alive in the Killing Fields: Surviving the Khmer Rouge

Shea, Pegi - Tangeled Threads: a Hmong Girl's Story

**CHINA/NANKING** Chang, Iris – The Rape of Nanking

**BOSNIA/HERZEGOVINA** Filipovi, Zlata – Zlata’s Diary Sacco, Joe - Safe Area Gorazde: the War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 Honig, Jan Wilhelm – Srebrenica: a Record of a War Crime Ching, Jacqueline - Genocide and the Bosnian War

**BURUNDI** (civil war) Kidder, Tracy – Strength in What Remains

**JEWISH HOLOCAUST** Frank, Ann – Diary of a Young Girl Wiesel, Elie – Night Tec, Nechama – Dry Tears: the Story of a Lost Childhood Keneally, Thomas - Schindler’s List (fiction) Yolen, Jane – Briar Rose (fiction) Perl, Lila - Four Perfect Pebbles: a Holocaust Story Ackerman, Diane – The Zookeeper’s Wife Zusak, Markus – The Book Thief (fiction) Spinelli, Jerry – Milkweed (fiction) Roy, Jennifer R. - Yellow Star Thompson, Ruth - Terezin - Voices From the Holocaust

Deem, James - Kristallnacht: the Nazi Terror That Began the Holocaust

Metselaar, Menno - Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures

Taylor, Peter L. - The Secret of Priest's Grotto: a Holocaust Survival Story


 * RUSSIAN GENOCIDE **

Sepetys, Ruta - Between Shades of Gray

**RWANDA** Cheadle, Don - Hotel Rwanda (DVD) Hatzfield, Jean – Machete Season: the Killers in Rwanda Speak Gourevitch, Philip – We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda Rusesabagina, Paul – An Ordinary Man: an Autobiography

**SIERRA LEON** Beah, Ishmael – A Long Way Gone

**SUDAN** Marlowe, Jen - Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival Hari, Daoud - The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur Jal, Emmanuel - War Child: A Child Soldier's Story

Xavier, John – Darfur: African Genocide

**UKRAINE – STALIN’S FORCED FAMINE** Conquest, Robert – The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization & the Terror-Famine Kubecik, Paul – The History of Ukraine

**GENOCIDE** Winckelmann, Thom - Genocide - focuses on the last 100 years of history and the genocides that have happened.

//I Promised I Would Tell// by Sonia Weitz