Task Focus upon comparing and contrasting the differences between life in a Concentration Camp in Germany during World War II and life in an Internment Camp in the United States during World War II. Look at the living conditions, food, work and basic human rights the occupants had while living in these camps. Your final product will be a written paper focusing upon comparing and contrasting life in concentration camps and internment camps. Below are materials that may be helpful to you in your search. Information Seeking, Location & Access Web Links Concentration camps Concentration Camps were found in Germany, Poland and France during World War II. Although primarily Jews were were taken to these camps, other people were sent to the there because of their religious and political beliefs. Remember.Org Jewish Virtual Library -- Concentration Camps Holocaust Holocaust History -- Non Jewish Victims Zipple.com -- Concentration Camps United States Holocaust Memorial Museum History Place Holocaust Timeline Holocaust Survivors A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust Holocaust Studies C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Holocaust Museum An Auschwitz Alphabet Simon Wiesenthal Multimedia Learning Center -- The Camps Internment Camps For Americans of Japanese or German Descent Internment camps are where Japanese and German Americans were taken to live during World War II because the United States government considered them a risk to national security. A More Perfect Union Camp Harmony Exhibit Internment of Germans in the U.S. during WWII Japanese Internment in WWII Japanese-American Internent Camps during WWII Japanese American Internent The Manzanar Committee Online Manzanar National Historic Site Suffering Under a Great Injustice A History of Japanese American Internment War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizonia 1942-46 -- Camp Life Children of the Camps - the documentary Books available from the Ford IMC on this topic. Title & Shelf Number Aleutian sparrow Fic Hes The diary of a young girl / Anne Frank B FRANK Auschwitz 940.53 SHU Daniel's story PBK Matas The Holocaust 940.53 Res I never saw another butterfly. : Children's drawings and poems from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 741.9437 P884i Japanese American internment camps 940.53 DUD Life in a Nazi concentration camp 940.54 SAL Surviving Hitler : a boy in the Nazi death camps 940.53 WAR Heroes of the Holocaust 940.53 GOT Children of the slaughter 940.53 GOT Anne Frank : young voice of the Holocaust B FRANK We are children just the same : Vedem, the secret magazine by the boys of Terezn? 305.23 Gir One eye laughing, the other weeping : the diary of Julie Weiss FIC DEN Greater than angels PBK MAT We are witnesses : five diaries of teenagers who died in the Holocaust 940.53 We Holocaust memories : speaking the truth 940.53 LAN Hilde and Eli, children of the Holocaust 940.53 ADL Witnessess to war : eight true-life stories of Nazi persecution 940.53 Wit The Holocaust : 1939-1945 940.53 Kal The Holocaust heroes 940.53 Fre The Faces of resistance 362.87 Kal Holocausts in other lands 304.6 Kal Jacob's rescue : a Holocaust story FIC DRUCKER Struggle B Zys Further information can be found in the following InfOhio Resources SIRS Discoverer Encyclopedia Britannica EBSCO Grades 7-12 Search EBSCO using the following keywords Japanese Internment Camps Japanese Internment Manzanar German Internment Camps German American Internment Holocaust Concentration Camps Also, search EBSCO with the following subject headings Holocaust, Jewish 1939-1945 Concentration Camps Japanese Americans - evacuation & relocation 1939-1945 American's Concentration Camps World War 1939-1945 World War 1939-1945 - evacuation of civilians Prisoners of War - United States World War 1939-1945 - atrocities Holocaust Victims Below is a listing of articles that may be useful for your research Japanese Internment Camps Internment of Japanese Americans. Political & World Affairs: WWII, 2002, p1, 2p; Reading Level (Lexile): 1220; (AN 6939301) Witness and victim. By: Chang, Gordon H.. Humanist, Jan/Feb98, Vol. 58 Issue 1, p21, 3p, 1bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 1070; (AN 69049) The Japanese--American Internment. By: Sundquist, Eric J.. American Scholar, Autumn88, Vol. 57 Issue 4, p529, 19p; (AN 5317985) Japanese internees take a pilgrimage to the past By: Marco R. della Cava. USA Today, 06/25/2003; (AN J0E130184904703) Executive Order 9066. By: Patton, Allyson. American History, Dec99, Vol. 34 Issue 5, p72, 1p, 1bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 1040; (AN 2382908) The Camps at Home. (cover story) By: Mineta, Norman. Newsweek, 03/08/99, Vol. 133 Issue 10, p46, 3/4p, 1bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 760; (AN 1586870) A Field in the Desert That Felt like Home. By: Davis, David; Cook, Kevin; O'Brien, Richard. Sports Illustrated, 11/16/98, Vol. 89 Issue 20, Following p36, 3p, 2bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 1120; (AN 1276764) Hard times at Heart Mountain. By: Wiener, Jon. Nation, 5/15/95, Vol. 260 Issue 19, p694, 7/8p; Reading Level (Lexile): 920; (AN 9505192957) The war at home. Humanities, Mar/Apr95, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p32, 4p, 4bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 1150; (AN 9503167516) Concentration Camps One Tragedy, Two Lives. By: Fields-Meyer, Thomas; Heyn, Eve. People, 3/29/2004, Vol. 61 Issue 12, p113, 2p, 2c, 1bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 1050; (AN 12598554) Anne Frank. Political & World Leaders: WWII, 2002, p1, 2p; Reading Level (Lexile): 1000; (AN 6939220) Never Again. By: Weston, Jenny. Current Events, 5/5/2000, Vol. 99 Issue 25, p2b, 1p, 2bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 860; (AN 3089210) Freeing the survivors. (cover story) By: Parshall, Gerald. U.S. News & World Report, 4/3/95, Vol. 118 Issue 13, p50, 16p, 2 charts, 10bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 1030; (AN 9503297502) A Visit to Majdanek. By: Parker, Frank S.. Judaism, Spring76, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p158, 9p; (AN 4885103) The beginning of redemption. (cover story) By: Chesnoff, Richard Z.. U.S. News & World Report, 4/3/95, Vol. 118 Issue 13, p66, 2p, 2c; Reading Level (Lexile): 1210; (AN 9503297503) Remembering the holocaust. By: Relin, David Oliver. Scholastic Update, 3/24/95, Vol. 127 Issue 12, p25, 3p, 2c, 1bw; (AN 9504103662) Remembering Auschwitz. Economist, 1/28/95, Vol. 334 Issue 7899, p18, 3/4p, 1bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 1230; (AN 9501307735) A tortured legacy. (cover story) By: Nagorski, Andrew. Newsweek, 1/16/95, Vol. 125 Issue 3, p56, 2p, 1c, 1bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 1200; (AN 9501117655) ANNE FRANK: FORTY YEARS ON. By: Barnes, Ian. History Today, Mar85, Vol. 35 Issue 3, p48, 3p; (AN 4869738) Books from other libraries about the Japanese Internment Camps I am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment by Jerry Stanley Japanese American Internment Camps (Cornerstones of Freedom. Second Series) Japanese American Internment Camps by Bryan J. Grapes (Editor) Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment by James D. Houston (Author), Jeanne Houston (Author) The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp Based on a Classroom Diary by Michael O. Tunnell, George W. Chilcoat Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee (Illustrator) Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience by Lawson Fusao Inada (Editor), California Historical Society, Patricia Wakida (Preface), William M. Hohri (Afterword) Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family by Yoshiko Uchida Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans by Erica Harth (Editor) Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans by Archie Miyatake (Introduction), Sue Kunitomi Embrey, William H. Michael, Wynne Benti (Editor), Ansel E. Adams, Sue Kunitomi Embrey Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp by Michael L. Cooper (Author) Elusive Truth: Four Photographers at Manzanar by Gerald H. Robinson Books from Other Libraries about Concentration Camps & The Holocaust I Never Saw Another Butterfly : Childrn's Drawings & Poems fr Terezin Concentration Camp,1942-44 by Hana Volavkova Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin by Susan Goldman Rubin The Children We Remember by Chana Byers Abells (Author) Picture Books about the Holocaust Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries by Laurel Holliday (Editor) Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Bunting, Stephen Gammell (Illustrator) The Number on My Grandfather's Arm by David A. Adler, Rose Eichenbaum (Photographer) One Yellow Daffodil: A Hanukkah Story by David A. Adler (Author), Lloyd Bloom (Illustrator) Some Good Video or DVD programs about Concentration Camps Survivors of the Holocaust (1996) Starring: Steven Spielberg, See more Director: Allan Holzman Format: Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC Rated: NR Studio: Warner Home Video The Devil's Arithmetic (1999) Director: Donna Deitch Format: Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC Rated: NR Anne Frank Remembered (1995) Starring: James F. Collier, See more Director: James F. Collier Format: Color, NTSC Playing for Time (1988) Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, See more Format: NTSC Rated: NR Studio: M.C.E.G./Virgin Visi The Hiding Place (2003) Starring: James F. Collier, See more Director: James F. Collier Format: Color, NTSC Rated: PG Escape From Sobibor (1987) Director: Jack Gold Encoding: Region 1 DVD Format: Color Rated: NR Studio: Westlake Entertainment The Last Days (1998) Format: Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC Rated: PG-13 Studio: Umvd Video Release Date: November 5, 2002 The Lost Children of Berlin (1997) Starring: Lost Children of Berlin, Anthony Hopkins, See more Format: Color, Black & White, NTSC Rated: NR Studio: A & E Entertainment Some good Videos about the relocation of Japanese Americans Children of the Camps: the documentary NAATA Distribution 346 Ninth Street 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94103 Website: http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/index.html Days of Waiting Steven Okazaki, producer/director, 28 minutes Distributor: Transit Media (800-343-5540). Contact: NAATA (415-863-0814) Once Upon a Camp Multilingual Classroom Series Distributed by NAATA (415-863-0814), this collection by UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the Japanese American National Museum includes a Teacher's Guide for each video: The Bracelet, John Esaki, director. Story by Yoshiko Uchida, 2001. 25 minutes (grades K-5). Dear Miss Breed, Veronica Ko, director. 2001. 13 minutes (grades 6-8). Interactions, Justin Lin, director. 2001. 33 minutes (grades 9-12). Beyond Barbed Wire. Mac and Ava Picture Productions, 1997. Days of Waiting: The Life and Art of Estelle Ishigo. Farallon Documentary Films, 1990 A Family Gathering. Lise Yasui and Ann Tegnell. PBS Video, 1989 Heart Mountain: Three Years in a Relocation Center. National Asian American Telecommunications Association 1997 General Information Gayle Schmuhl Ford Middle School LEECA Concentration Camps/Japanese Internment Camps Grade Levels 8-12 Social Studies/English Internment of Japanese Americans during WWII and Concentration Camps Europe This pathfinder is designed to acquaint students with the daily life of individuals in both Japanese internment camps and concentration camps. Students will compare and contrast living conditions, food, work and basic human rights for the occupants of these camps. The dewey numbers used included 940.53, 305.23 & Biography. The subjects heading used were: Holocaust, Jewish 1939-1945 Concentration Camps Japanese Americans - evacuation & relocation 1939-1945 American's Concentration Camps World War 1939-1945 World War 1939-1945 - evacuation of civilians Prisoners of War - United States World War 1939-1945 - Atrocities Holocaust Victims