40 years ago today, Pol Pot began the Cambodian genocide. 65% of the population in Cambodia is under the age of 25. Many are orphans. If you’d like to help, you can visit the Cambodian Children’s Fund to find out how. April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge (KR) took Cambodia’s capital. The KR was headed by Pol Pot, a socialist …
They Scream in Silence
Gena Turgel survived 3 concentration camps, experiments. Gena Turgel was 16 when Nazis bombed her hometown. She lost 2 brothers in the Jewish ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Then the Nazis sent her to Plaszow concentration camp. After 2.5 years, they sent her to Auschwitz. She lived through medical experiments by Dr. Josef Mengele. When she was 21, she survived the …