This poster depicts three Warsaw ghetto heroes who resisted in different ways. Mordechai Anielewicz led the rebellion known as the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Janusz Korczak refused to comply by going to Treblinka with the children from his orphanage. Hillel Zeitlin was a Yiddish author who called for continued religious practice in the ghetto.
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At the start of the genocide, nearly 50 000 Tutsi took refuge on a hill in Bisesero. Between May and June 1994, these refugees stayed on that hill and fought against Hutu killers. When France sent troops in late June’s for ‘Operation Turquoise’, only 2000 of the Tutsi refugees remained.
Credit: University of British Columbia, Adam Jones, 2012.

Armin T. Wegner went against German and Ottoman orders to restrict the dissemination of information and evidence. He collected notes, documents and photos depicting the atrocities committed against the Armenians in 1915. To draw attention to these atrocities, he clandestinely sent his findings to the United States and Germany.
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The rich cultural life within Jewish ghettos reflected the will of the Jewish people to preserve their culture in the face of a regime that aimed to suppress it. This is a poem written by a man named Rosenblatt while in the Lodz ghetto in 1944.
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Anne and Eloise Charet are an example of how helping others can be resistance. They worked at an orphanage called Canada House, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 1975. Anne and Eloise helped 55 orphaned babies and children escape from the terror of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Credit: Art Purdon, Kim Routhier-Filion.

Anne and Eloise Charet are an example of how helping others can be resistance. They worked at an orphanage called Canada House, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 1975. Anne and Eloise helped 55 orphaned babies and children escape from the terror of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Credit: Art Purdon, Kim Routhier-Filion.

In 1975, just as the civil war was ending and the Khmer Rouge began to take power, Montrealers Anna and Eloise Charet took over an orphanage in Phnom Penh. They ultimately brought 55 children back to Canada, brought along as they fled Cambodia. Credit: Jamais sans nos enfants,Yves Bernard/Telimagin, 2015.