Standing up against hate

The teenagers hurry into the classroom of their Chatsworth high school for their daily lesson on kidnappings, pogroms, torture and massacres. Susan Abram in the Daily News,

The subject matter may be grim, their teacher, Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, says, but how else will they learn about their power to save a life?

Standing up against fear, hate and discrimination, she says, could have prevented the deaths of 1.5 million people in the 1915 Armenian Genocide - a slaughter she says created a ripple effect of crimes against humanity: the Holocaust in Europe, the Pol Pot massacres in Cambodia, and the ethnic genocides in Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur.