Upstanders And Genocides Flashcards

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Oskar Schindler

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Bought 1100 Jews to save them from concentration camps, righteous gentile

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Bobby sands

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Hunger strike while in jail, survived 66 days

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Romeo Delaire

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Rufused to leave Rwanda and saved Tutsis from Hutus

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Jan palach

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Protested by pouring gas on himself and lit himself on fire

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Claus von staffenburg

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Tried to kill Hitler with Bomb, Bomb was moved which killed people around Hitler but not Hitler himself

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Mahsa amini

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Refused to confirm to Irain society, was killed for not wearing hijabs correctly

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M Gandhi

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Protested, started non violence movement but also had child brides

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Nicholas winton

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Saved kids with the kinder transport

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Irene sendler

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Smuggled babies out of Warsaw and had them adopted, kept their names in jars and barried them, saved 2500

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Leopold socha

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Hid Jews in a sewer, he had broken into one of thems house prior, brought them food and clothes, righteous gentile

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John Rabe

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Set up safe zone so Japanese wouldn’t kill Chinese, but was a nazi official

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Sempo sugihara

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Gave Jews visas to escape to Japan from Lithuania

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Aung san suu kyi

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Wouldn’t leave country since she wouldn’t be let back in, later during her time as president, she let a genocide happen

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Malala Yousafzai

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Women’s rights advocate (for education specifically), was shot by the taliban and survived and continued her activism

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Alexis Navalny

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Russian disident (someone who lives in truth) poisoned by Putin, fight Putin, was saved by Germans but when back and kept fighting

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Sophie schoell

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Was in the White rose (anti-nazi group), fought against nazis by writing essays telling people about them, was caught and beheaded

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Vaclav havel

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Smoked, drank, had affairs but always told his wife about them since he had to live in truth, was offered the chance to go to broadway but stayed to fight Putin and was jailed

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Che Guevara

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Freedom fighter, communist revolutionary, but had anyone who was against him executed

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Raoul Wallenberg

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Saved the most Jews out of any righteous gentile, up to 70,000

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Tibia beilski

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Hid in a forest and saved other Jews, almost 2000

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Satyagraha

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Soul force

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Righteous gentile

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Non Jew helping jews

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Disident

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Someone who lives in truth

24
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Armenian genocide

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Killed 600,000-1.5 million, turkey denies it happened

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Chinese genocide

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Killed 40-80 million, leader of China is mao tse tung

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Rape of nanking

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Used rape as a weapon, Japan denies and downplays these events

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Cambodian genocide

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Khmer Rouge (perpetrators) 25% of population killed, highest percent of any genocide, population driven out of urban centres to set up rural farming communities like medical times

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Rwandan genocide

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Hutu militias killed 800,000 tutsi (and moderate Hutus) with machetes in 100 days, weaponized rape, reconciled after 20 years

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Bosnian genocide

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Ethic cleansing, conflict between three groups (Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks/Kosovars) Serbs wanted to cleanse what they though was their land, which was called Srebrenica, (tools 100,000 lives, displaced 1,000,000 muslims and croats, killed 8,000+ muslims)

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North Korea

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Kim Jong un (loves NBA but North Korea doesn’t allow any American things, and apparently doesn’t go to the bathroom) people believe unicorns exists and there’s only certain haircuts allowed.