A Troubled Peace

Links to Learning More

WW2 People’s War:

Stories collected by BBC from WWII survivors of occupation and Resistance:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/categories/c54808/

Survivors’ stories collected by BBC about concentration camps:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/categories/c54805/

For other survivors’ stories, see:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/

For information provided by the U.S. WWII Memorial, see:
http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=home.asp

Videos of V-E Day (Victory in Europe):

Newsreel of Victory in U.S.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8703739496132697585&ei=kIFcSpyhCI-2rQLe7ZG-Aw&q=ve+day+1945&hl=en

V-E Day May 1945/Jump For Joy-Duke Ellington
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW94GNM9FZo

1945 newsreel about V-E Day celebrations and the work left after liberation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h5Dflsljl8&feature=related

V-E Day in Paris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2kbeavYYpI&feature=PlayList&p=5D86B15045F4449D&index=19

V-E Day in England
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wb1ViP3QMY

radio clips of Canadian celebrations (click onto Canada celebrates V-E Day)
http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/second_world_war/topics/1682/

Life in England during WWII (begins with speeches by Hitler and Churchill)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsTEF-BSLUA

Discovery Channel clip on the fall of Berlin and VE Day
http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/video/al-murrays-road-to-berlin-ve-day/

photo montage of the joy and tragedy experienced in liberation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VlSxtkyIUM&feature=PlayList&p=5D86B15045F4449D&index=10

Clips on the concentration camps:

Britannica.com film archives of the Allied liberation of concentration camps. These are powerful film clips taken as the camps were reached and opened. But they contain graphic images, and disturbing interviews. Viewer discretion advised. NOT suggested for younger readers.

Titled: World War II: Liberation of Concentration Camps (Britannica) There is an intro followed by 14 separate shorts describing the path of liberation, refugees (or DPs—displaced persons) on the roads, and specific camps: Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Terezin, and Flossenburg.
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/world-war-ii-liberation-of-concentration-camps-britannica/2789979497

The best website to learn more about the Holocaust and how it was combated is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. There are many moving personal accounts. Start with this link:
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/auschwitz/
the website homepage is:
http://www.ushmm.org/

Anne Frank

To learn more about Anne Frank, who kept a diary about her family hiding from the Nazis, visit the museum website:
http://www.annefrank.org/

Elie Wiesel

To learn more about Elie Wiesel, who survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and wrote Night, visit his Foundation for Humanity website:
http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/

Albert Camus

To learn more about Albert Camus:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1957/camus-bio.html
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/00/pwillen1/lit/indexa.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/acamus.htm

George Orwell

To Learn more about George Orwell:
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jorwell.htm
http://students.ou.edu/C/Kara.C.Chiodo-1/orwell.html