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| In the News... | | | | Order the Popular Remembering World War II: First-Person Accounts Video Presentation on DVD | | November 02, 2009 |
Foothill College is taking advance orders for the new DVD of Remembering World War II: First-Person Accounts, a video featuring 42 individual oral history narratives of all sides of the conflict. The three-hour DVD features wartime memorabilia, photographs, letters, documents and music from the period.
The project began nine years ago as part of the Foothill College Life Stories class in which writing instructor Sheila Dunec encouraged her older adult students to commit their significant life memories and milestones to paper. Many of the students, themselves members of the Greatest Generation, wrote memoirs of their experiences related to the war.
From GIs to WACs and Rosie Riveters to POWs, the life stories complied by Dunec's students told an eye-opening, first-person history of the WWII. The remarkable personal experiences also reflect the diversity of Life Stories students, and include accounts from different countries, cultures and ethnic perspectives, as well as from several sides of the conflict. They include stories from the different theaters of war, front lines, home front, death camps and internment camps. They are told by soldiers, war brides, support personnel, sisters, nurses, Holocaust survivors, prisoners of war and children—all now in their senior years.
The DVD sells for $20 and can be ordered by phone by calling (650) 949-6965 or e-mailing GawlickCraig@foothill.edu. Early next year, the piece will also be available to download from De Anza's iTunesU. | | Phone us at: (650) 949-6965 | | eMail us at: gawlickcraig@foothill.edu |
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