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A century of sugar and tears: Guadeloupe has bulit a slavery memorial centre on the site of a gigantic sugar refinery, believing it's necessary to acknowledge
Denis, Jacques
Article
2015
Present day Guadeloupei s coming to terms with a grim past through the Caribbean Centre of Expression and Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade (MACTe), a new museum and memorial built symbolically on...
Fighting Fascism: the Irish at the Battle of Cordoba
Murphy, Pauline
Article
2017
A history of the role played by Irish citizens who enlisted to fight against General Franco's fascist forces in Spain in 1936.
Germany and Britain: Memory and Myopia
Malik, Kenan
Article
2014
Ernst Barlach was one of Germany's great expressionist artists of the early twentieth century. A virulent nationalist in the run-up to the First World War, Barlach found that his experience of the Wes...
In Memoriam: Bobby Lee, Black Panther
Thurman, Hy
Article
2017
Hy Thurman remembers Bobby Lee.
Memory as paying business : Getting a battlefield, the site of tragedy or a memorial museum onto Unesco's World Heritage List is now a shrewd way to increase tourist
Clastres, Genevieve
Article
2015
A look at how memorials and sites of great tragedy are now being exploited for financial gain as tourist destinations.
One by One, South Sudan Tries to Name Its War Victims
Turse, Nick
Article
2016
In South Sudan, where a vicious civil war has been raging, no government office or nongovernmental organization has kept a tally of the names of those killed by government forces, rebels, and other ar...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016: Working class organizing
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. I...
South Sudan: Volunteers Gather Names of South Sudan's Uncounted War Dead
Casey, Ruairi
Article
2017
The names of 5,000 victims of violence appear in the "Remembering the Ones We Lost" project, a memorial to people who have died in seven decades of conflict.The project invites witnesses to submit det...
South Sudan: Remembering the Ones We Lost
Website
Remembering The Ones We Lost is a public memorial that aims to name all victims of conflict and armed violence in South Sudan. This unified and public recognition of individual lives being lost throug...

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Finding Home in the Bain Co-op: Dagmar Baur's Journey from Poland to Toronto
Baur, Dagmar
2000
Dagmar Baur wrote this autobiography for Heritage Toronto.