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The making of an extraordinary memento that survived the concentration camp and a death march designed to bury the truth Joy was not an emotion often seen in the death camp of Auschwitz, where more than a million Jews were murdered. Nor were acts of humanity, or the ability to show defiance much in evidence….
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What We Have Learned From a Century of Genocides: From first-person accounts of the Armenian and Yazidi genocides, to Anne Frank’s diary and the Nuremberg prosecutor who ‘peered into hell’, we need to listen to those who experienced genocide, to seek accountability – and take heed of the early warning signs Before October 7th, 2023,…
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This article by Mukesh Kapila includes a review of Heidi Kingstone’s Genocide: Personal Stories, Big Questions The sombre speeches of foreign dignitaries including the UN Secretary General and heads of state were interrupted by sobs and screams from the thousands packed into Kigali’s Amahora stadium. It was 2014 and we were marking  Kwibuka20, the Rwanda genocide’s 20th anniversary. Red…
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Heidi Kingstone says it is not for journalists to decide whether conflict in Gaza is genocide. When I began writing my book Genocide: Personal Stories, Big Questions in 2020, people’s eyes glazed over when I discussed the atrocities committed in the 20th and 21st centuries. One person said they weren’t interested because they weren’t Jewish, and another…
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Genocide isn’t something from the past or something that happens somewhere else or someone else. It’s also not something we can forget because we all have a responsibility to remember and protect. In Genocide: Personal Stories, Big Questions, I discuss the major genocides of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries – from the Armenian Genocide to the…
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MANTRAYA.ORG The war in Ukraine and the atrocities committed there, with accompanying claims of genocide and Nazism, have made remembrance of the Holocaust more relevant than ever. We are confronted by perhaps the most serious challenge to the international rule of law since the end of World War II and, unfortunately, we are also confronted with…
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