Oral History Examples – Video Tape
The sponsor of Tell Me Your Stories, the Living Legacies Historical Foundation, is offering a video sampler (DVD is also available), of brief excerpts from oral history interviews. The cost of the video/DVD includes duplication and shipping. The price of the video/DVD is being offered at our cost for duplication and shipping. The video/DVD includes excerpts from interviews with:

• A World War II veteran tells the moving story of his brother who, while serving in an elite American ski trooper division in Italy, was killed trying to help a German soldier.
• A Japanese woman in her seventies remembers her difficulty coming to school in America for the first time, and the challenge of not being able to speak English.
• A Holocaust survivor tells of the German invasion of her Polish town when she was 12 years old, of hiding with her parents in a bunker, and of her own survival, after losing both parents.
• An African-American man describes life in East Los Angeles, where he lived with many other ethnic groups in the 1920s and 1930s; included is a rare instance of discrimination in that neighborhood, and how it was handled by the residents.

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