Children of Genocide: Five Who Survived

In March 2010 World Without Genocide (formerly Genocide Intervention Network-Minnesota), in partnership with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, will produce a documentary with Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) focusing on the global impact of genocide. Titled Children of Genocide: Five Who Survived, this film features interviews with survivors from five conflicts (the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan). These survivors will explain how they overcame difficult struggles to lead successful professional lives. The shadow of genocide in their lives, however, has influenced each of them to work to create a world without genocide.

By recognizing that genocide has no boundaries of time, place, or target, this film will promote global citizenship and engagement with the power to create social change. It will build on the previous collaboration for the 2009 film Genocide Again: Darfur, which airs regularly on TPT and has been distributed to over 800 educators and human rights advocates.

Objectives:
• Raise awareness of past and current genocides and mass atrocities around the world;
• Recognize genocide as a contemporary, global problem which has no boundaries;
• Engage viewers in action to protect innocent people; prevent genocide; prosecute perpetrators; and remember those whose lives and cultures have been destroyed;
• Create a film for teachers, civic leaders, and interested individuals to use to develop

Collaborating Partners:
• Twin Cities Public Television (TPT)
• Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota (CHGS)
• STAND-UMN: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition