The Holocaust: A Memoir
You are a 70 year old survivor of a Nazi Concentration Camp. Your grandchild has asked for help with a school project about the Holocaust. Together, you put together a poster or powerPoint memoir covering...
1.) Historical context---events leading to the rounding up of European Jews by the Nazis
2.) Notifying the individuals about their evacuation
3.) Life in a typical camp, such as Auschwitz or Treblinka. Or you may be interested in setting your memoir in the "model" camp Theresienstadt
4.) Liberation, and life after the war
5.) Reparations?
Anchor your memoir with specific facts and details!! Names! Dates! Events! Locations!
Include at least 5 illustrations, properly captioned
Here are 3 websites to get you started:
www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/
www.yadvashem.org
(if the link is broken, search for Yad Vashem on google)
en.auschwitz.org/h/
World War II: Japanese Internment
Japanese Internment: A Memoir
It is 1998. You are a Japanese-American woman of 66 years. You and your extended family lived in an internment camp for 3 years. Your 10 year old granddaughter has asked you to help her with her WWII project: Japanese Internment...
1.) Historical context---research the events that led up to FDR's Executive Order 9066 issued in 1942
2.) Notifying the families--- how did the Japanese learn about their evacuation? How much time were they given to prepare, close stores, sell property, etc? What could they bring with them?
3.) Camp Life---describe what life was like for a typical child living in the camps. Choose one camp, such as Manzanar or Gila River, for your focus
4.) Life after the camps---how did the people reintegrate into American life? Were they welcomed? Did life resume as before, with property returned and businesses reopened, etc?
5.) Describe the reparations made to the victims---when, by whom, what, and in what manner?
Present your poster-memoir through the eyes of a child of the camps, looking back from 1998
Anchor your memoir with specific facts!! Dates! Names! Locations!
Include 5 illustrations, properly captioned
There are many many websites devoted to this subject. Here are 4, to get you started:
amhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience
amhistory.si.edu/ourstory/activities/internment
www.PBS.org/childofcamp/history/
www.PBS.org/thewar/at_home_civil_rights_japanese_american.htm
World War I Poetry links:
Fordham University collection of British WWI poets
A collection of known and less-known WWI poets
WWI poetry with poets' biographies
Good places to start for your World War I Journal:
PBS The Great War
BBC History of World War I
First World War (lots of primary sources here)
WWI Links from about.com
Westward Expansion
