personal narratives

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Citizen 13660

1983
A Japanese artist illustrates and narrates her experiences in the Japanese internment camps where 110,000 people of Japanese descent were held in the U.S. during World War II.

This has happened

an Italian family in Auschwitz
2006
Piera Sonnino recounts her family's deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, describing the horrors she and her family faced and the courage and faith that helped them through their time in the concentration camps.

Say the name

a survivor's tale in prose and poetry
2005
A collection of poems and prose writings in which Judith Sherman reflects on her childhood, imprisonment in a Ravensbruck death camp, and her liberation.

Through the burning steppe

a memoir of wartime Russia, 1942-1943
2001
Elena Kozina discusses how she and her mother managed to survive after the Germans laid siege to Leningrad in 1941.

Pieces of the game

the human drama of Americans held hostage in Iran
1984

Winter in the morning

a young girl's life in the Warsaw ghetto and beyond, 1939-1945
1986

The death train

a personal account of a holocaust survivor
1978

On the home front

growing up in wartime England
1998
An account of a young child living in Lydney, England, during World War II including memories of air raids, gas masks, rationing, and war news as well as routines of family, friends, and school.

Survival in the shadows

seven hidden Jews in Hitler's Berlin
2002

What we saw

2002
Presents news transcripts from September 11, 2001, and essays by reporters who covered the terrorist attacks, and provides a DVD of original footage and news reports from the CBS News Archives.

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