Tag: genocide

  • SURVIVING GENOCIDE – Saputara story

    SURVIVING GENOCIDE – Saputara story

    Saputara, is a 19 year old woman currently living in the Kalindi Kunj camp in New Delhi, India. I spoke with her on the telephone via her husband Halal, a 23 year old Rohingya man whom she met at the camp. They have two children together. The only word we could directly exchange,sans translation,was Namaste,…

  • SURVIVING GENOCIDE – The Kor Family

    SURVIVING GENOCIDE – The Kor Family

    Alex Kor is the son of not one, but two European Jewish Holocaust survivors. Alex is a doctor in Indiana, where he was raised. Being the son of two survivors imbues him with an obvious yet unspoken sense of compassion and wisdom. His mother, Eva — famous for her work ensuring that the lessons of…

  • SURVIVING GENOCIDE –             Stories of Rohingya and Holocaust survivors

    SURVIVING GENOCIDE – Stories of Rohingya and Holocaust survivors

    By Nicole Altomare and Ayushka Anjiv October 12, 2020 Nazi Germany and modern-day Myanmar may seem worlds apart, but the notion of ethnic and racial superiority, which underscores genocidal violence, is the same. Whether a survivor speaks Yiddish or Rohingya, they suffered by the orders of governments that could only charge them with the crime…