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Special Guests:
Special Guests:
Sara Cohan
Sara Cohan
Louise Lawrence-Israels
Louise Lawrence-Israels
Titony (Tony) Dith
Titony (Tony) Dith
Tung Yap
Tung Yap
Armenia: Genocide Awareness Month speakerSara Cohan serves as the Education Director, developing curriculum and leading GenEd’s teacher-training workshops. Cohan’s background combines research, study, curriculum development and teaching. She has a Master’s degree in Social Science Education and was a high school social studies teacher in Florida. She was a teacher fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and has received multiple other fellowships and awards, including those from Fulbright-Hays and the National Endowment of the Humanities. She received the George Washington Medal of Honor from the Freedoms Foundation and served as a research fellow for Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. She has written articles and educational materials for scholarly journals, magazines and multiple nonprofits. Source -“Who We Are.” Genocide Education Project, The Genocide Education Project, genocideeducation.org/who-we-are. Accessed 20 May 2022.
Cambodia: Genocide Awareness Month speakerTung Yap and Titony Dith
Titony Dith is the oldest son of Dith ran. He left Cambodia in 1975 just 3 days before the Communist Khmer Rouge took over te capitol city of Pinon Penh. He was one of the lucky people to leave Cambodia before the "Killing Fields" started. Mr. Dith is the son of Cambodian photojournalist Dith Pran, he is the President of the Dith Pran Foundation.
Mr. Yap is also a survivor of the Cambodian genocide and a board member for the Dith Pran Foundation. The foundation provides funds for students in Cambodia who wish to go to college but cannot not afford it.
Source-Godek, Michael. “Survivors From the Cambodian Genocide Visit Dominion.” DHS Press, Dominion High School, 11 Apr. 2019, dhspress.com/4799/news/survivors-from-the-cambodian-genocide-visit-dominion.
Titony Dith is the oldest son of Dith ran. He left Cambodia in 1975 just 3 days before the Communist Khmer Rouge took over te capitol city of Pinon Penh. He was one of the lucky people to leave Cambodia before the "Killing Fields" started. Mr. Dith is the son of Cambodian photojournalist Dith Pran, he is the President of the Dith Pran Foundation.
Mr. Yap is also a survivor of the Cambodian genocide and a board member for the Dith Pran Foundation. The foundation provides funds for students in Cambodia who wish to go to college but cannot not afford it.
Source-Godek, Michael. “Survivors From the Cambodian Genocide Visit Dominion.” DHS Press, Dominion High School, 11 Apr. 2019, dhspress.com/4799/news/survivors-from-the-cambodian-genocide-visit-dominion.
Holocaust: Genocide Awareness Month speakerLouis Lawrence-Israels was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1942. German forces had invaded the Netherlands in May 1940 and set up a German administration. The Nazi’s also confiscated the family business. By the time Louise was born anti-Semitic laws were enacted and Jews were forced to wear a yellow star. By July of 1942 deportations of Jews from the Netherlands to the extermination camps of Auschwitz and Sobibor had begun.
In January 1943 Louise and her family were ordered to move to Amsterdam, and shortly thereafter went into hiding to escape deportation. Louise’s father managed to rent a top floor apartment and acquired false identification papers for the family. Louise’s father had to leave the apartment after curfew to get food and medicine for the family; sometimes he brought home news about the war.
Source-“Louise Lawrence-Israëls.” Www.Ushmm.Org, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-survivors/volunteers/louise-lawrence-israels. Accessed 20 May 2022.
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