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Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In 1941, Japanese forces attacked a US naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Japan and other countries were fighting in World War II. In response to the attack, the US entered the war. US officials rounded up Japanese Americans and forced them into prison camps. This book describes the experiences of Japanese Americans and the effects of the imprisonment. Includes text, images, and back matter, plus table of contents, infographics, glossary, additional...
Author
Publisher
Ink & Magick
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
What is the price of justice? As a ward of the Lacklands, Robyn Loxley has lived a privileged life. Even now, in 1942, when another war ravages the world and people on the home front must do without, her adopted family is not affected by the rations and shortages. That's not to say she hasn't been affected by the war personally. As Robyn hits yet another roadblock in her quest to see her best friend Will, trapped in a Japanese-American concentration...
48) Kraĭ =: The Edge
Publisher
OOO "TPO "ROK"
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Russian
Description
The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains...
Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping graphic novel, a Jewish journalist encounters an extension of the horrors of the Holocaust in North Africa. In the lead-up to World War II, the rising tide of fascism and antisemitism in Europe foreshadowed Hitler's genocidal campaign against Jews. But the horrors of the Holocaust were not limited to the concentration camps of Europe: antisemitic terror spread through Vichy French imperial channels to France's colonies in North Africa,...
51) Ivan Denisovich
Publisher
T︠S︡entral Partnership
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Russian
Description
Story of Ivan Denisovich, prisoner in a Stalinist work camp in Siberia, and his determination to retain his sanity and his self worth in an oppressive system designed to break the human spirit.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Imagine you learn that there are kids your age living in a prison with their families. None of them have done anything wrong. It is racial prejudice and fear that has put these people there. Then imagine that your family volunteers to live in one of these places to help the people who are imprisoned. That is what twelve-year-old Helen Hannan experiences in 1945. She hears about these prisons before most other Americans do. Traveling to a place called...
54) Beyond the betrayal: the memoir of a World War II Japanese American draft resister of conscience
Author
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir by a Nisei member of the Fair Play Committee that was organized at the Heart Mountain War Relocation Authority camp. A book-length, insider's perspective, account by a Nisei World War II draft resister. A rare acknowledgment of dissension within the resistance movement, between the young men who went to prison, and older leaders."
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media (formerly NAATA) [distributor]
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
During World War II more than half of the 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent who were evacuated to American concentration camps were children. In this documentary six Japanese Americans who were incarcerated as children in the camps reveal their experiences, cultural and familial issues during incarceration, the long internalized grief and shame they felt and how this early trauma manifested itself in their adult lives.
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