Research Guides: ENG 112: The Shawl: Videos / Internet

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Kanopy
Streaming video service that includes documentaries and films on a variety of topics.
Films on Demand
This collection provides high quality streaming videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Linking/Embedding Issues with MS PPT

Featured Videos

After Auschwitz
Database: Kanopy
A "Post-Holocaust" documentary that follows six extraordinary women, capturing what it means to move from tragedy and trauma towards life. These powerful women serve as our guides on an unbelievable journey, sometimes celebratory, sometimes heartbreaking but always inspiring.

Children of the Holocaust
Database: Films on Demand
About one-third of adult European Jews survived the Nazis’ Final Solution, but only seven percent of children. This program tells the stories of four people who, as children, survived the Holocaust.
Jimmy Murakami: Non Alien
Database: Films on Demand
This documentary follows acclaimed animator Jimmy T. Murakami’s emotional return to Tule Lake,where he spent part of his childhood along with 18,000 Japanese-American citizens who refused to swear allegiance to the U.S. Along the journey, we learn how the experience affected his development and outlook on life.

Search the Internet

There are many websites sponsored by governments, museums, universities, and organizations that can provide many perspectives on your topic. The website examples listed here may not be directly about the book you are studying, but they offer information related to topics derived from the assigned book. There are many other possibilities. Make sure that you carefully evaluate any webpage that you decide to include in your project.

Google Search Examples:

site:.gov Holocaust
site:.gov Japanese American Internment
site:.edu Holocaust Literature
site:.org Holocaust

Featured Websites

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington, D.C.
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.
Densho Project
Non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, educating, and sharing the story of World War II-era incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Exploring Japanese American Internment
National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA)
Letters from the Japanese American Internment
Smithsonian Education
Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps During World War II
Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission

ENG 112: The Shawl

Search for Videos

Featured Videos

Search the Internet

site:.gov Holocaust

site:.gov Japanese American Internment

site:.edu Holocaust Literature

site:.org Holocaust

Featured Websites