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Maja Bogojević: Challenging the Illusion of Participation
The Summit of the Future 2024 holds the promise of transformative change through meaningful youth participation and empowerment. By challenging the illusion of participation, establishing global standards, and promoting education and active citizenship, we can empower youth to shape their futures.
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Holocaust Identification Cards
Senior Fellow Inga Kotlo decided to conduct a research in her hometown, Mostar, with the aim to gather information and put them in a form of an ID Card, which could serve both as a contribution to USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia and a tribute to the citizens of Mostar who lost their lives during World War II.
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Memory Walk Sarajevo
Senior Fellows Laura Boerhout and Lamija Landžo created the Memory Walk workshop in Sarajevo to encourage Bosnian youth from different backgrounds to reflect critically on the monuments and contested histories in their living environment.
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Copenhagen: Bright Hope and Deep Gloom – A New View of the 1943 Rescue Operation in Denmark
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Civil Society and the Holocaust: International Perspectives on Resistance and Rescue
In 2013, Humanity in Action Denmark held a conference in Copenhagen to mark the 70th anniversary of the flight and rescue of Danish Jewry. This book was published in association with the “October 1943” conference. The anthology examines how European societies dealt with the knowledge of the Nazi persecution of Jews in very different ways before, during and after the Holocaust.
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Jan Karski and Stefan Zweig
"Jan Karski and Stefan Zweig" was a talk delivered at the Fourth Annual Humanity in Action International Conference at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, on June 27, 2013.
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Herstory: Women in Solidarity and Beyond
Dr. Elżbieta Korolczuk led a breakout session at the Fourth Annual Humanity in Action International Conference in which she examines the Solidarity movement from a feminist perspective. Hear her talk.
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Transformation, Socio-Economic Change, Civil Society
Professor Andrzej Rychard, Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences, presented a keynote address at the Fourth Annual Humanity in Action International Conference in Warsaw.
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Origins and Mission of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Professor Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett delivered the opening remarks for the Fourth Annual Humanity in Action International Conference. In her talk, she addresses the creation and mission of the the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, which served as the venue for the International Conference.
Humanity in Action Press
Discover some of the publications from our in-house publisher:
On People with Disabilities
What would happen if Hermione Granger was a girl with a disability? Why is disability is rarely discussed in terms of diversity? Who are people with disabilities?
Pre-Genocide - Warnings and Readiness to Protect
An anthology of personal interpretations, by researchers and writers, about alarm bells and the readiness to protect prior to genocides. The essays in this volume focus on the 1930s before the Holocaust in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark - as well as the years before the genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Kurdistan, Rwanda and Bosnia.
Shifting Paradigms: Humanity in Action Senior Fellows on Policy and Pluralism Across Borders
Shifting Paradigms is a volume of diverse articles on cross-border policy and pluralism written by Humanity in Action Senior Fellows.
Two Trees in Jerusalem
Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen in her touching account "Two Trees in Jerusalem" tells about the resistance of her parents, Donata and Eberhard Helmrich, against the horrors of National Socialism.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Diplomacy and Diversity
Recognizing the intensification of transnational conflicts that both violently divide and intimately link our global communities, this book is a collection of diverse essays, which tackle international relations and migration.
Reflections on the Holocaust
The first book published by Humanity in Action, Reflections on the Holocaust is a collection of essays from Humanity in Action Fellows, Senior Fellows, Board members and lecturers from 1997 to 2010.