They Call Us Enemy / Unbroken - Gr8 | English Language Arts - Concordia Library at Concordia International School Shanghai

Japanese Internment Camps

Japanese American Incarceration Era Collection | National Museum of American History
Explanatory text of topics associated with the incarceration camps and primary source photos.
Exploring America's Concentration Camps | Japanese American National Museum
Organized by themes, primary source guided exploration.
Civilian Exclusion Order and Japanese American Incarceration During WWII | Smithsonian
Primary document - context and analysis
Photography and Japanese American Incarceration During WWII | Smithsonian
Primary source photos
Japanese American Incarceration | Smithsonian
Primary sources - Focus on the Temporary Detention Centers
Aliens in Their Own Land | Facing History
Overview of Japanese Internment with reflection on using racism and discrimination as a national security measure.
Japanese-American Incarceration During World War II | National Archives
Primary sources from internment period.
The War Relocation Authority & the Incarceration of Japanese-Americans During World War II | Harry S. Truman Library
Primary source collection, mostly government speeches, press releases, address, memos, letters, etc.
Japanese American Internment | LOC
Primary source set from the Library of Congress

WWII - Pacific Theater

National Museum of the Pacific War | NMPW
Comprehensive museum of the Pacific front of WWII.
Pacific Theater of Operations | National WWII Museum
Overview of the war in the pacific.

Laura Hillenbrand Interview

George Takei On His Work

George Takei's They Called Us Enemy Interview | SYFY
George Takei on Standing Up to Racism, Then and Now | Facing History
Excerpts from an interview with George Takei

Densho

Densho's mission is to preserve Japanaes American stories of the past for the generations of tomorrow.

This site serves as a one-stop-shop for oral histories, primary sources, research, and information about the Japanese American experience during WWII.

Louis Zamperini on His Life

1936 Berlin Olympics, Military Training, and Bombing Wake Island | National WWII Museum
Oral history, recording of interview with Zamperini

Zamperini Interview - 1988 | LA84 Foundation
Text of an interview with Zamperini

Monuments & Memorials

Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II | National Park Service
Description and text of inscriptions of the Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism.
National Japanese American Memorial Foundation
Learn about the memorial, as well as information about Japanese Americans in camps, as soldiers, and discrimination.
Photos of the Memorial to Patriotism
Still photos showing the memorial.
Ireicho Monument | Irei
A comprehensive list of over 126,000 people placed in the internment camps. Digitization exists on the website.
Righting a wrong, name by name | The Conversation
Article providing story behind the Irei Monument
The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial | National Park Service
Information from the National Park Service on the Bainbridge Island memorial.

Allied POWs & War Crimes

Remembering Bataan | US Department of War
Overview of the Bataan Death March from the Department of War (formerly Department of Defense)
Battle of Bataan | National WWII Museum
Overview of the Battle of Bataan
The brutal experience of being a WWII POW in the Pacific | History Skills
Chronicles being a POW of the Japanese during WWII.
Tokyo War Crimes Trial | National WWII Museum
Overview of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
Burma-Thailand Railway | National Museum Australia
Outlines the use of Australian POWs in forced labor.
The Story of the Taiwan POW Camps
Descriptions and POW lists of the camps in Taiwan.

Unbroken Background Information

The Rest of the Story: THe Life of Louis Zamperini After "Unbroken" | Reasonable Theology
Louis Zamperini | Biography.com
Biography of Zamperini
Louis Zamperini | Eisenhower Foundation
Short biography

Gr8 | English Language Arts: They Call Us Enemy / Unbroken