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From Hawaii To the Holocaust: A Shared Moment In History (DVD) Email This Page
Filmmaker: Wayne Weightman and Judy Weightman
DVD - $ 95.00
Price listed includes Public Performance License.
The moving and powerful story of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion of the 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team, a fighting force comprised of Asian-American soldiers that helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp and was a part of the most highly decorated unit of its size in U.S. history. It is also the story of two very different peoples--Jews and Americans of Japanese Ancestry (AJA's) -- who shared common experiences as victims of government-sanctioned oppression, racism and prejudice during World War II.


Running time: 53 min, Year released: 2008
Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y
Avail. formats: dvd
ISBN: 1-55974-792-7
Language: English, Subtitled?: N
For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N
Grade level: 7th and up

Winner Hawaii International Film Festival
This title can also be found in: Asian-American Culture & History, Communism, Cultural Studies, Eastern Culture & History, Germany, Hawaii, History, Holocaust, Jewish Culture & History, Racial Issues, U.S. History, U.S. Military, World War II
 

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