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Comparing Human Rights Violations: Mafia and Shoah

This lesson plan explores the parallels between the violation of human rights in the Mafia and the tragedy of the Shoah (Holocaust). It examines the unique features of Shoah while finding analogies in the crimes committed by the Mafia. The lesson features photographs by Letizia Battaglia, a photographer dedicated to exposing the crimes of the Mafia.

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Comparing Human Rights Violations: Mafia and Shoah

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  1. Lesson Plan 4 HUMAN RIGHTS Views of Mafia and Shoah Wedidn’tmean to compare Shoah to Mafia, we just wanted to findanalogies in the violation of Human Rights, respecting the uniquetragicfeatures of Shoah.

  2. Franco Zecchin. A member of a Sicilian family murdered by Mafia. Palermo, November15, 1983. Two American soldiers conducting an investigation of Leipzig-Thekla, a sub-camp of Buchenwald, make notes while examining a corpse lying near a barbed wire fence. -''Leipzig-Thekla, Germany, Apr 19, 1945 - May 1945

  3. The bodies of victims in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Letizia Battaglia. Palermo, a murder by Mafia.

  4. Massimo Sestini, Capaci massacre, Palermo, 1992

  5. Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 1945. Via D’Amelio massacre, Palermo, 1992

  6. Letizia Battaglia is a photographer who has been dedicating all her life to show pictures of Mafia and its crimes. On the left. Schifani’s wife during her husband funeral. Schifani was one of Falcone’s bodyguards who died with him in Capaci massacre. On the right. A boy playing the game of Mafia.

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