Family-Friendly iRead Book Club

Select Mondays at 1:00 pm CT

Join us for a virtual book club for teens and adults led by Museum historians and educators. Audience: Students 6th – 12th grade and adults

11/23 - Year Zero Graphic Novel

Year Zero, a graphic novel created for the Museum’s Ten Stages of Genocide Gallery, tells the story of the Cambodian Genocide. From 1975 through 1978, the Khmer Rouge regime led a communist revolution in Cambodia. They wanted to turn the country into “a classless society” of peasant farmers. Led by Pol Pot, they targeted Cambodians they considered enemies of the revolution. 1.5 to 3 million people were murdered or died from starvation. The graphic novel highlights the stage of Symbolization in the genocide, in which perpetrators used symbols to identify and target groups of people.

Visit www.dhhrm.org/graphic_novels to access the graphic novel free of charge.

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12/21 - The Promise: The Moving Story of a Family in the Holocaust by Eva Schloss

Eva was a little Jewish girl during the Second World War. She lived happily with her mother and father and older brother, Heinz, in the beautiful city of Vienna. But when the Nazis came, everything changed. Eva’s family fled to Amsterdam. Eventually they had no choice but to go into hiding. Despite the increasing terror, they cherished their precious moments together. This is the unforgettable story of how Eva and Heinz lived each day to the fullest while struggling to survive in a world turned upside down.