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Type: Document
Description: Three Macfie brothers, Roy, Arthur, and John, farm boys from Parry Sound, Ontario, end up enlisting for combat in Europe, despite their being needed back home on the farm. From the television series "Canada: A People's History." Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: The Auschwitz Museum admits the original suitcase was destroyed in a fire.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Sound
Description: Arthur Tateishi recalls the discrimination he faced when he moved to Toronto.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: A formal apology and financial compensation package is passed into law for the Japanese-Canadian community, to redress their internment and relocation during the Second World War.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Document
Description: Using a variety of Web-based resources, students will analyze and prepare a presentation comparing recognition of war veterans in Canada to recognition of war veterans in another country of their choice.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: Seasoned war reporter Matthew Halton of the CBC is staggered by the sight of prisoners -- "bags of bones" -- in liberated Nazi prison camps. In labour camps, prisoner-of-war camps and political prisons, enemies of the Nazi regime have been starved, tortured and murdered -- atrocities that have shocked the rest of the world.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Sound
Description: Medal awards ceremony and requiem mass for fallen soldiers interrupts fighting in Italy during World War II for the Van Doos.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Sound
Description: Matthew Halton reports on the end of the war in Europe, reflecting on its horror and drama.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: On Oct. 7, 1944, a group of prisoners blew up Crematorium No. 4 at Auschwitz. As described in this radio clip, all 450 prisoners associated with the uprising were killed, including four young Jewish women who had smuggled gunpowder from the Nazi munitions factory. It was the only organized uprising at Auschwitz. And thanks to Sigmund Sobolewski, the sole surviving person who watched the revolt, the heroic acts of these brave men and women have not been forgotten.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Sound
Description: Survivors talk about the psychological after-effects of Nazi concentration camp.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
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