ibiblio
Ibiblio: Welcome to Free Burma
At this ibiblio.org site, information is provided about Burma. Includes subjects such as News, Education, Reference, Activism, Boycott, and Help Refugees. There is also a recent CNN slideshow of peaceful protesters.
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Ethnomed
Ethnomed provides information regarding cultural beliefs and medical issues of refugees and immigrants. It gives specific details around cultural elements that impact selected cultural groups, and this can help teachers improve cultural...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Lucky Child Literature Discussion
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows for many discussions of Lucky Child by Luong Ung. Students will read this novel that describes a sister's arrival in America as a Cambodian refugee. Another sister is left behind....
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: The Evian Conference
Read about the Evian Conference, a meeting of thirty-two countries which gathered in 1938 to address the question of Jewish refugees from Germany. The result of the meeting was very disappointing.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: The Refugees of Parga
An image of "The Refugees of Parga", created by Francesco Hayez in 1831 (Oil on canvas, 201 x 290 cm).
BBC
Bbc: Refugees Tell Tales of Horror
Unbelievable BBC report detailing the conditions inside the New Orleans Superdome, which was used as an evacuation shelter during Hurricane Katrina. Report is from September, 2005.
Curated OER
Refugees of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province
This photograph shows a displaced family from Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.
Curated OER
Child Refugee From Pakistan's North West Frontier Province
This photograph shows one of the many displaced children of Pakistan's North West frontier province.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Freedom From Fear (Lesson Plan About Asylum Seeking)
For this mock-trial lesson, students explore the kinds of issues that compel people to leave their own countries and seek refuge in the United States. Requires viewing of select segments from "Destination America," the four-part series...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Westerbork
Article about the camp at Westerbork, the Netherlands, originally created by the Dutch to intern Jewish refugees, but later used as a transit camp by the Nazis, a holding place for Jews being sent to other concentration camps.
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Simon Wiesenthal Center: Visas for Life
The remarkable story of Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara, the Japanese Consul General and his wife in Lithuania in 1939 and 1940 who issued visas to Jewish refugees. (Note: Some images will not load in archived version of site.)
Oxfam
Oxfam Education
This non-profit organization presents teacher resources on a number of different global issues. Topics include climate change, the G8 Summit, refugees, global citizenship and more. Includes video.
United Nations
United Nations: Unamid: African Union/united Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur
Since 2007 the United Nations, in conjunction with the African Union, have been providing humanitarian efforts to bring peace and justice to Darfur, Sudan. Darfur has been recognized as a victim of genocide conflict since 2003....
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Doctors Without Borders
Outstanding interactive home page of a professional organization of Physicians who volunteer to help people all over the world who are victims of war, diseases, natural disasters, and those who have no health care. Great virtual tour of...
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Minnesota Historical Society: Becoming Minnesotan: Recent Immigration
The oral histories of five immigrant communities new to Minnesota-Asian Indian, Khmer, Hmong, Somali, and Tibetan-remind us that there is no single answer to questions about what it means to be an American. With associated maps,...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Displaced Persons
Article about the establishment of centers for displaced persons, especially Jews who survived the Holocaust, and about the subsequent emigration of most of those people in the decade following the end of World War II.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Voyage of the St. Louis
An article about Jews fleeing the Third Reich on the transatlantic liner the St. Louis in 1939.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Botswana Today
Learn about the achievements and national problems of the African nation of Botswana in this video segment from Wide Angle.
CBS
Cbs News: Immigration and Naturalization
Outstanding interactive page that discusses immigration. You can find out the breakdown of immigrants to America, take a U.S. citizenship test, and view videos regarding immigration and immigration reform.
CBS
Cbs News: Rebuilding Afghanistan
Explore this interactive presentation and learn about Afghanistan's geography, history and people and what is being done to rebuild this country. (2004)
The History Place
The History Place: The Nazi Holocaust 1938 1945
Article depicting the Nazi Holocaust from the beginning in 1938 with a simple boycott to the end in 1945 with the liberation of the death camps.
CNN
Cnn: Afghanistan
Excellent coverage on the state of Afghanistan through articles that range from describing its long struggles to Afghanistan Today. Articles provide information on Kabul, Caves of Afghanistan, Afghan's Civil War, as well as an...
PBS
Africans in America: Revolution: The Book of Negroes 1783
An interesting look at the compiling of the Book of Negroes, a register of those whom the British promised freedom during the course of the Revolutionary War. Find out why this was a component of the Treaty of Paris of 1783. From PBS.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Emigration, Nazi Policies
Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust resources than anywhere else in the world. Their main objective is preserving all the stories of this time period so it is not forgotten or repeated. They have broken down the Holocaust...
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