“How do we ensure that ‘never again’ isn’t an empty slogan, or an aspiration, but also a call to action?”

U.S. President Obama asked last week on Holocaust Rememberance Day in Washington D.C. but then he offered only one way in which do to that: BY BEARING WITNESS

The Words of Bonds Documentary Project has been trying to take more concrete steps by producing an informational documentary made for and by New York City area, public and private students, that will not only educate them about genocidal atrocities such as the Holocaust, the Genocide of the Native Americans and those who perished in the African American Slave Trade, but will serve as a project that allows them to interact with these histories as they rush to record and retell the traces of these horrors, straight from the survivors’ hearts to the everyday consciousness of these students.

With the film, web site and other resources fully in development and underway, we refer you to our web site http://www.wordsofbonds.com where you can:

* learn more about the project

* preview select clips and trailer for the film on VIDEOS Page

* leave us a comment, voice or video message

*  share your or your family’s story on our SHARE Page

* discover a wealth of multimedia resources on our LEARN Page

* support us with a sponsorship or tax-deductible donation

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The enslavement of the African peoples, the transatlantic slave trade, and the plantation system that followed, initiated the largest sustained commercial trading of human beings in history. Some scholars estimate that more than 20 million Africans were transported to the New World.
The few slave narratives that are presented in this exhibit reflect only a fraction of the millions upon millions of stories that could have been told by people who had the misfortune to toil under the yoke of slavery.
Although each of their stories is as unique and individual as a fingerprint, describing as they do, a different heartbreak and a different survival strategy. The brief glimpse provided in this exhibit will give you an introduction to the ways in which lives were affected.
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