Survivors of Genocide

At 3 Generations we continue to be hard at work spreading awareness about the horrors of genocide and its devastating impact on individuals and communities around the world. By educating ourselves and others on the trauma of historic and ongoing genocides, we can move closer to a world where empathy and justice can prevail and genocide is no longer committed.

We have exciting updates to share with you on our current work in the field. We recently hosted a Livestream with Imran a Rohingya Muslim refugee who fled the genocide in Myanmar. He discussed his 8-year journey to safety as well as the crisis his family and fellow Rohingya refugees face in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh during the Covid-19 crisis. You can watch the talk on our Facebook page. 

We also released a new short video about a Tibetan Nun who escaped from Chinese oppression and cultural genocide. Finally, we are in the process of completing post-production on three short documentaries about Yazidi women forced into slavery by ISIS. ISIS are the perpetrators of a genocide of the Yazidis in Sinjar, Iraq. 

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3 Generations has recently completed a short film, Preserving the Holocaust, about a remarkable group of young Polish conservators working at Auschwitz to preserve evidence of the Holocaust ahead of the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation. We went to Auschwitz in Poland to film the camp museum and the preservation efforts the people who work there are undertaking. We hope to be able to enter the film into festivals in the coming months and plan to premiere it on our website later in the year.

Preserving the memory and physical evidence of what happened is necessary because as time passes there are less survivors who can tell the story and fragile documents and artifacts  can disintegrate if not cared for properly. The museum, and others like it, are the foundations for ensuring the permanence of Holocaust remembrance, research, and education.

It is important now more than ever to educate new generations about the Holocaust. Recent polls show some startling facts. Ignorance about the Holocaust is growing , especially among young people. In France, nearly 20% of young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 said they had never heard of the Holocaust. A recent CNN poll taken across 7 European countries showed that about a third of the 7,000 respondents knew little or nothing about it at all.In the US, 22% of millennials say they haven't heard of the Holocaust. There is also a rise in anti-semitism. The FBI reported a 37% spike in anti-Jewish hate crimes in 2017 compared to the previous year. An EU-commissioned survey in 2017 found that 28% percent of European Jews said they had experienced anti-semitism that year.

There is a need now more that ever to educate people about the Holocaust and genocide. 3 Generations is committed to telling stories of survivors of genocide and preserving knowledge about the Holocaust. Please visit our website to watch other survivor stories and for more information about the release of our new short film, Preserving the Holocaust.