MEMORY AND ATROCITY CRIMES

Armenian National Institute: Examines the historical record of the Armenian Genocide with photo collections, a detailed chronology, sample archival documents and much more.
Armenian National Institute

Armenian Genocide Institute-Museum: Provides scholarly expositions of historical documentary materials, archival documents, photos on the Armenian Genocide in 1915-1923 and guided tours of the Museum in English, French, German, Russian and Armenian.
Armenian Genocide Institute-Museum

Commemoration of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps: This site features films and documents from a January 24, 2005 special session of the United Nations General Assembly dedicated to commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. Educators can also find related links and a virtual exhibition of the meetings.
Commemoration of Liberation Nazi Concentration Camps

The Foundation Topography of Terror: Provides historical information about National Socialism and its crimes as well as stimulates active confrontation with this history and its impact since 1945. Moreover, the Foundation serves as an advisor to the State of Berlin in all matters relating to these issues. Available in English and German.
The Foundation Topography of Terror

Genocide Monument: Presents the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 in a momument constructed by Kofi Setordji.
Genocide Monument-Rwanda

Guatemal Memory of Silence: The full report of the Commission for Historical Clarification on the acts of genocide which were committed between 1981-1982 in four regions of Guatemala.
Guatemala Memory of Silence

Holocaust Mahnmal: Available only in German.
Holocaust Mahnmal

International Center for Transitional Justice. The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) assists countries pursuing accountability for past mass atrocity or human rights abuse. The Center works in societies emerging from repressive rule or armed conflict, as well as in established democracies where historical injustices or systemic abuse remain unresolved.

International Coalition of Historic Sites Museums of Conscience: A growing world-wide network of organizations and individuals dedicated to teaching and learning how historic sites and museums can inspire social consciousness and action. The site posts links to its members' websites, which include the District Six Museum (South Africa), the Gulag Museum at Perm-36 (Russia), and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (United States).
Sites of Conscience

Memory and Memorials from Chile: Collections of photographs from Chile 30 years since the military coup.
Memory and Memorials-Chile

"Memory and Sovereignty in Post-1979 Cambodia: Choeung Ek and Local Genocide Memorials," which "seeks to investigate the politics and symbolism of memorial
sites in Cambodia that are dedicated to the victims of the Democratic
Kampuchea or “Pol Pot” period of 1975-1979" by Rachel Hughes, University of Melbourne, Australia

Memorial and Museum: Auschwitz-Birkenau; History of the Death Camp as well as presentations of memorial sites.
Auschwitz-Birkenau

New England Holocaust Memorial: Located on the Freedom Trail in the heart of downtown Boston, the memorial was begun by a group of survivors of Nazi concentration camps who have found new homes and new lives in the Boston area. Dedicated in October 1995, over 3000 individuals and organizations from across the community joined in sponsoring the project.
New England Holocaust Memorial

Soweto Memorial: In honour of the victims of the Soweto Uprising of 1976
Soweto Memorial

John Torpey's 2001 paper, "The Pursuit of the Past: A Polemical Perspective," raises interesting and important questions about the "veritable tidal wave of 'memory,' 'historical consciousness,' and 'coming to terms with the past'" so prevalent in the scholarly literature today.

PBS- Frontline "A Jew Among Germans": FRONTLINE presents Marzynski's moving and provocative search for a Germany that he -- and his children -- can live with. Over several years of filming, Marzynski encounters artists, architects, and everyday Germans, who wrestle with the big questions of guilt, responsibility, and memory.
A Jew Among Germans

Public History at Concordia University: The burgeoning field of Public History explores various ways in which historical consciousness is manifest in the public realm (museums, film, statues, commemorative events, web sites), including how history is presented and received in non-academic contexts. Public History also encompasses life story interviews of a more private nature. The emphasis of the Public History option at Concordia is on public memory and commemoration, oral history, and digital storytelling. An important public policy dimension built into the program focuses on aboriginal treaties, genocide, and human rights.
Public History Concordia University

The Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp: Offered by the University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, with a brief history of the Nazi camp as well as pictures of memorial sites.
The Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

The Sharpeville Memorial: This heritage site was officially opened on the 10th of December, 1996 by former President Nelson Mandela in Sharpeville when he signed the Constitution of South Africa. This was to honour the victims of the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, which were brutally gunned down while protesting against the oppressive Pass Law.Sixty-nine people were confirmed dead and more than 180 wounded.
The Sharpeville Memorial

Twenty Voices: Highly interactive, it features stories from twenty survivors of the Armenian Genocide - one representing each province of the Ottoman Empire. In addition, the website offers information on a current collaborative effort to collect Armenian artefacts predating 1915, as well as the upcoming documentary The Genocide in Me by award-winning filmmaker and website creator Araz Artinian.
Twenty Voices

Westerbork Concentration Camp: Offered by the University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, with a brief history of the Nazi camp as well as pictures of memorial sites.
Westerbork Concentration Camp