Read, watch and listen
to interviews
conducted by high school students.

Holocaust Survivors and Refugees

Over 35 hours of interviews with ten Jewish survivors and refugees from Poland, Germany, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Holland, and Austria

WWII Camp Liberators/Witnesses

Nine U.S. soldiers deployed in Europe - all witnessed Nazi concentration camps including Buchenwald, Ordruff, Dachau, Hemer, Ebensee, Gunskirchen, Gardelegen, and Mauthausen

Japanese American Internees

Eleven Japanese Americans deported to internment camps during WWII including Topaz, Manzanar, Tule Lake, Heart Mountain, and Minodoka

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Fillmore Redevelopment/Dislocation - coming soon...

Five residents and former residents of the historically African American Fillmore District of San Francisco discuss urban changes in resulting from redevelopment


The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) included Telling Their Stories in a new booklet, Stories of Excellence: Case Studies of Exemplary Teaching and Learning with Technology. The booklet is available for download at: www.nais.org/go/storiesofexcellence.

NAIS also recognized Urban School's Telling Their Stories project with a Leading Edge Recognition award for excellence in technology integration – March, 2004.


Teacher Workshop: 5-day intensive
Telling Their Stories: Producing Web-Based Digital Video Oral Histories
July 19-23, 2010

See the educator's interview with Wilma Bass, trauma therapist, conducted 7/28/2009

Presented by:
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mccomb high school

High School students in McComb, Mississippi join Telling Their Stories

 
Welcome to the first collaborator school. Students at McComb High School in southwestern Mississippi have joined Telling Their Stories with a new Civil Rights series focusing on elders who witnessed first hand the stuggle to achieve voting rights for blacks in the early 1960's.
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