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Japanese-American Internment (including Teaching guides)

• A History of the Japanese American Internment, Fatherryan.org.
• Abundant Drems Diverted, Seattle Times article captures Japanese-American Internment in the Northwest.
• American Concentration Camps:Map
• Asian Americans and U.S.-Asia Relations: Japanese American Internment, Lesson written and compiled by Angela Che, Asia Society.
• Asian American Comparative Collection: The Kooskia Internment Camp Project
• Camp Harmony Exhibit, University of Washington Libaries.
• Chronology of the Japanese American Internment, Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Network.
• Citizenship Denied: An Integrated Unit on the Japanese American Internment, By Judy Woo and Jolynn Asato, California State Polytechnic University.
• Evacuation and Internment of San Francisco Japanese, 1942, Museum of the City of San Francisco.
• Farewell to Manzanar..Exploring Japanese American Internment, Trackstar.
• Images of Japanese American Internment, AskAsia.org.
• Japanese American Concentration Camps--External Links, Modern American Poetry.
• Japanese American Exhibit & Access Project, University of Washington.
• Japanese American Internment, American Memory, History Collections for the National Digital Library.
• Japanese American Internment, by Chris Beekman.
• Japanese American Internment, Race Relations at About.com.
• Japanese American Internment, US Department of Justice's.
• Japanese American Internment Camp during World War II, Greenwood Publishing Group. Author Wendy Ng.
• Japanese American Internment Camps During World War II, From the Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.
• Japanese American Internment Curriculum
• Japanese American Internment of the Santa Clara Valley On-Line Exhibit, Santa Clara University.
• Japanese American Internment: Lessons take on sense of urgency by Mark Floyd, Oregon State University News.
• Japanese American Internment Memorial, Santa Clara University.
• Japanese American Internment, It's Constitutional, Law Buzz.
• Japanese American Internment Timeline by Asian-American Village Staff.
• Japanese American National Museum
• Lesson Plans: Japanese American Internment, The Fillmore, PBS. .
• Novels and Non-fiction websites on Japanese American Internment, Selected by Kay E. Vandergrift.
• Rediscovering Our Histories: The Japanese American Internment Experience , National Asian American Telecommunications Association.
• Students document Japanese American experience during World War II internment, US Santa Cruz Currents Online.
• Teaching about Japanese American Internment, ERIC Digest.
• Teaching About Japanese American Internment by Gary Mukai, Director of the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) at Stanford University.
• The Japanese American Internment. What Happened? created by Pam Kyrka.
• Topaz: Japanese Relocation Photographs Exhibit, University of Utah.
• Tule Lake: Japanese Relocation Photographs Exhibit, University of Utah.
• U.S. History, Japanese American Internment camps, King County Library System, Washington State.
• War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945, The Bancroft Library.

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Japan's Unit 731

• Unit 731, AII POW MIA.

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Japanese War Crimes: Comfort Women

• A Report on Taiwanese Comfort Women
• Comfort Women: A Web Reference
• 'Comfort Women' Battle On Despite Legal Blow By Suvendrini Kakuchi, IPS. .
• Comfort Women: Refuting the view of being licensed prostitues, ALU Archive.
• Japan's Crimes Against Humanity
• Japanese Debate History of "Comfort Women"
• Japanese court rules in favor of 'comfort women', CNN. .
• Quest for Justice, The Story of Korean "Comfort Women" as Told Through Their Art, White Dog Cafe.
• Review of the Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War
• Silence Broken: Korea Comfort Women, reviewed by Keith Howard
• Timor's Haunted Women, Back Door Newsletter on East Timor. .
• The Comfort Women, Written by Joycelynn Salonga.
• The Comfort Women, A History of Trauma

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Jane Elliott's Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes experiment

Note: class simulations about this are not encouraged and teachers who endeavor to do it should first consult with administrators about legal liabilities of the school district.

• Blue Eyed, California Newsreel.
• Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes
• Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes, Australian Memories of the Museum .
• Central Washington University to See 'The Angry Eye'
• Educator speaks out against racism By Ryota Kashiwa .
• Segregation, How I Felt by Karen P.
• The Eyes of Jane Elliot by Brigitta Kral.

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Janusz Korczak, Head of Orphanages in Warsaw Ghetto

• The Janusz Korczak Living Heritage Association

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Jehovah's Witnesses and Bible Scholars (Bibel-Forscher)

Jehovah's Witnesses were victims of persecution in a number of countries including Germany and the United States before 1933. The most famous American case was: Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940) regarding saluting the flag. However, the Nazis broke new ground with concentration camps and murder of Witnesses.

• Jehovahs Witnesses: Victims of the Nazi Era, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression
• Shofar FTP Archive File
• The Concentration Camps, The Nuremberg Charges
• Arnold-Liebster Foundation - Nazi Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
• Jehova's Witnesses: Persecution 1870-1936

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Jewish History

• Jews in Poland

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Jewish Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust: A Neglected Subject

• Jews Rescued Jews Committee
• Jews Rescued Jews During the Holocaust
• Online Dimensions: Stories of Jewish Rescuers' Negotiations with the Nazis
• To Save a Life: Stories of Jewish Rescue
• Group: Jewish rescuers in the Holocaust ignored

Jewish Resistance and Armed Uprisings

• Against the Odds, Documentary on the Resistance in Nazi Concentration Camps
• Jewish Armed Resistance 1942-1944, Korczak International School.
• Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
• Jewish Resistance, Shoah Resource Center .
• Jewish Women in the Partisans
• Resisters, A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust.
• The Vilna Ghetto Uprising, Museum of Tolerance Multimedia Learning Center.
• The Zuckerman Family of Kurenitz by Greer Fay Cashman

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Journalism and the Holocaust and Genocide

• 150th Anniversary: 1851-2001; Turning Away From the Holocaust, The New York Times.
• A Harsh Landscape for Journalism, American Journalism Review.
• A landmark case in Rwanda raises the issue: Can words kill? How much press freedom is too much?, Journalism and Genocide.
• America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 (Publication), Cambridge University Press.
• Blame It on the New York Times, The Holocaust. The A-Bomb. U.S. imperialism by Jack Shafer.
• Business and the Holocaust, Stock Maven Research Center.
• Global conflict needs early warning system, by Jeremy Keehn .
• How the NYT Missed the Story of the Holocaust While It Was Happening, History News Network.
• Journal: Rwanda, Beauty and Loss, by Deirdre Stoelzle.
• Literature of the Holocaust, Maintained by Al Filreis.
• Madness Visible: A Memoir of War, Book Review by Mark Brayne.
• Press Coverage of the Armenian Genocide, ANI.
• Symposium: The Media and the Rwanda Genocide, Carleton University SChool of Journalism and Communication.
• The Balkans Investigative Reporting Network, Institute for War & Peace Reporting.
• The Journalism of The Holocaust, by Marvin Kalb.
• Why Didn't the Press Shout: International Journalism During the Holocaust, (Publication), KTAV.

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Jozef Mengele

• Auschwitz: Medical Experimentation, Mengele, The Nizkor Project.
• How Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele cheated justice for 34 years, Article by Gerald L. Posner and John Ware, Chicago Tribune Magazine, May 18, 1986.
• Jozef Mengele, Angel of Death
• Josef Mengele, SS physician in the concentration camp Auschwitz, Shoah.de.
• Josef Mengele's Bio, 20th Century History.
• Josef Mengele: The Angel of Death, by Douglas Lynott, The Crime Libary.
• Mengele's Twins, Children of Auschwitz.
• SS, Doctor DDR. Josef Mengele
• Who was Josef Mengele?, The Holocaust History Project.

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