Graphic Novel
Scott Pofahl
A graphic novel examining Saddam Hussein's campaign of genocide against the Kurdish population in Iraq.
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Graphic NovelKatherine LaufferThe Story of the Hungarian Jews who were sent off to their deaths and the extraordinary acts of those who tried to save them. -
Graphic NovelKatherine LaufferThe true story of Witold Pilecki and his courageous undercover mission inside Auschwitz. -
Graphic NovelEli WrightThe Girl in the Green Sweater, a children’s book based on the story of Krisztina Chiger, was created by Cadet Eli Wright ’25 in XH405 – The Holocaust and its Legacy. Chiger survived with her family by spending over a year in the sewers of Lvov, aided by a Polish sewer worker. Ms. Chiger visited West Point in 2019 for a screening of a film based on her life and a discussion with cadets. -
Graphic NovelSophia Zhang-FernandezChildren of Nazi Experimentation was Cadet Sophia Zhang-Fernandez’s ’26 final research project for XH405 – The Holocaust and its Legacy. It narrates the experiences of two children imprisoned at Auschwitz, Eva and Miriam Mozes, where they were subjected to horrific medical experiments by the infamous SS doctor, Josef Mengele. Created as a children’s book, it portrays the horrors of medical experimentation during the Holocaust through the eyes of a child. -
Graphic NovelSamantha DiMaioCadet Samantha DiMaio ’22 created an impressive graphic novel, Andrapodized, which took a concept she learned in an Ancient History class and applied it in the context of the Rwandan genocide. Her project on the historical roots of genocidal sexual violence through analysis of the concept of andrapodization was just one of the projects cadets selected in which they grappled with the awful problem of sexual violence in genocide. -
Country AssessmentSamir StreatfieldSouth Sudan Situation Assessment. Cadet Samir Streatfield ‘19, working with COL (R) Dwight Raymond, spent six weeks researching and re-writing the US Army’s unclassified situation assessment for South Sudan, analyzing it though an atrocity threat lens. -
Country AssessmentXH415 CadetsMyanmar Situation Assessment. In 2019, XH415 focused on Myanmar/Burma. Each cadet in the course wrote a separate part of the study based on a particular element of Myanmar’s society. The country assessment itself, now totaling over 80 pages, considers Myanmar’s geography, history, culture, politics, military, economics, infrastructure, information & communications systems, foreign relations, ongoing insurgencies, COVID pandemic, and atrocity threats. -
Country AssessmentXH 415 CadetsUkraine Country Assessment. Completed by the cadets of XH 415, the assessment contains detailed analyses of Ukraine’s history, geography/terrain, political system, economy, society/culture, information space, infrastructure, military, and future atrocity risk. -
Research ProjectGuatemalan Genocide Mapping Team CadetsLed by former RCHGS postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Michael Cangemi, the Guatemalan Genocide Mapping Project was a cadet research team focused on building a comprehensive database of every recorded human rights abuse that took place during Guatemala’s civil war. -
Research ProjectWeston Vekasy and Maddie EasterThe Rwanda Genocide Mapping Project, developed by CDTs Weston Vekasy ’19 and Maddie Easter ’20 in collaboration with COL Chris Oxendine (Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering), Dr. Mike Geheran, Dr. Frey, and Dr. Christian Davenport (Notre Dame). The project is a dynamic map of killing by prefecture during the Rwandan Genocide using an underlay of UN deployments provided by LTG (R) Romeo Dallaire. -
Research ProjectElisabetta Aversa, Jacob Lapin, Jacob Foster, Dennis Rice, Aaron Hall & Josiah SpainIn August 2021, a small group of cadets pursuing research on the Chinese genocide of the Uyghurs presented its initial research at the 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS12), a global platform that brought together over 2000 Asia specialists and representatives of civil society in order to facilitate an exchange of views on a variety of Asia-centric issues.