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Japanese American Internment Camps
Actor Pat Morita on Japanese Internment Camps

  By Heath Harckham • August 4, 2014 Uncategorized
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Actor Pat Morita describes his experience in various Japanese internment camps during World War II. He also discusses the euphemistic terminology he feels is used when Americans remember the camps, citing the official term, “Relocation Camps,” as an inaccurate representation of the harsh and unjust imprisonment suffered by many Japanese Americans.

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Winston Churchill
Churchill’s ‘Never Was So Much Owed by So Many to So Few’ Speech

  By Sarah Dejak • July 31, 2014 Uncategorized
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In this audio recording, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a speech to incite confidence and inspiration to his countrymen on August 20, 1940 as the United Kingdom prepared for a German invasion during World War II. The Allies had suffered some demoralizing defeats in the past few months … Continue reading

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Warsaw Ghetto
Polish Underground Fighters on Rising Up Against the Nazis

  By Virginia Choi • July 30, 2014 Uncategorized
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Members of the Polish Resistance discuss their memories of the Warsaw Uprising on August 2, 1944, during World War II when Polish citizens took up arms in order to liberate Warsaw from the Nazis. The resistance expected the Soviet Union’s Red Army to intervene and aid in the fight but … Continue reading

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Cuban Revolution
Young Fidel Castro Wrote Fan Mail to FDR

  By Phoebe Goldenberg • July 30, 2014 Uncategorized
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“I don’t know very English, but I know as much as write to you…” Read an amazing letter from a 12-Year-Old Fidel Castro to just recently re-elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Castro writes “My very good friend Roosevelt: I don’t know very English, but I know as much to write … Continue reading

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World War II
[Text] Wounded WWII Soldier Exemplifies ‘Soldiering On’

  By Phoebe Goldenberg • July 30, 2014 Uncategorized
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“First of all, I want you to know that I’m really cheerful and looking forward to getting home and learning to live a kind of new and different life. Instead of being blue and discouraged…Now I’ll tell you what happened to me. So kind of brace yourself…” After sustaining severe … Continue reading

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Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Kikue Shiota Reflects on the Attack on Hiroshima

  By Megan O'Toole • July 29, 2014 Uncategorized
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Kikue Shiota shares her experience on surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 by the U.S. during World War II. At the time of the atomic bombing, Shiota was 21 years old and she was two kilometers away from the center of the attack. Shiota recalls … Continue reading

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Eva Perón
The Lost Photographs of Evita Resurface

  By Megan O'Toole • July 25, 2014 Uncategorized
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This video reveals the rescued photographs of the late former first lady of Argentina Eva Perón, which were taken by Alfredo Mazzorotlo during the last six years of Perón’s life. Mazzorotlo’s photographs depict Perón at different ceremonies, on various trips, and in private meetings. The photographer’s daughter, Maria Teresa Mazzorotola explains … Continue reading

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Warsaw Ghetto
Polish Underground Fighters & the Jewish Unit of the Uprising

  By Virginia Choi • July 24, 2014 Uncategorized
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Members of the Polish Resistance discuss their memories of the Warsaw Uprising on August 2, 1944, during World War II when Polish citizens took up arms in order to liberate Warsaw from the Nazis. One underground fighter, Waclaw Micuta, who lead the liberation of the concentration camp in the Warsaw … Continue reading

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Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The ‘Living Hell’ From the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb

  By Sarah Dejak • July 24, 2014 Uncategorized
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In August of 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Toyomi Hashimoto, a survivor of this tragedy, remembers it vividly. Hashimoto was 21-years old at the time and a mother to one son, and pregnant with another. She recalls the hectic and terrifying … Continue reading

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Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Aiko Kori Shares Her Survival Story

  By Phoebe Goldenberg • July 24, 2014 Uncategorized
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Aiko Kori describes surviving the atomic bomb attack on the Japanese city of Nagasaki during World War II. Only 17 years old at the time, Kori recalls being mistaken for a corpse, narrowly escaping cremation, and picking maggots out of her wounds–among other horrors. The bomb dropped on Nagasaki by … Continue reading