Scrapbook Project Research Guide

Scrapbook Project Topics

• • Korean Comfort Women (Japan forced women from Korea to become sexual slaves)

  • Chinue Sugihara (Japanese diplomat and rescuer during the Holocaust)  

  • Jewish Partisans (Jews who managed to escape ghettos and they formed their own fighting units)

  • White Rose (Sophie Scholl: non-Jewish university student who secretly distributed flyers against the Nazis)

    • • Holocaust Encyclopedia: White Rose

      • Holocaust Resistance: The White Rose - A Lesson in Dissent

  • Rosenstrasse Protest (non-Jewish women who protested the arrest of their Jewish husbands) 

  • Navajo Code Talkers (Native Americans recruited by the US army to break Japanese codes in the Pacific) 

  • Allied women spies (women who spied in enemy territory for the Allies)

  • Operation Pied Piper 

  • Arabs who rescued Jews during the Holocaust

    • • Among the Righteous (PBS)  and About the Righteous (Yad Vashem)  

      • one example  and  another example 

      • Honoring All Who Saved Jews (Opinion)

      • Dr. Mohamed Helmy

• Rescuers in Nanjing: (people who helped save Chinese who were being killed by Japanese)

• Gulags under Stalin in the Soviet Union (labor/death camps set up by Stalin during WWII)

• Roma and Sinti (“Gypsy” although this word is derogatory) persecution during WWII

• Gay persecution by the Nazis during WWII

How to Create In-text Citations

In-Text Citation

"The purpose of an MLA in-text citation, sometimes called a parenthetical reference, is to help readers easily find the sources in the Works Cited page that correspond to your referenced passage" ("MLA In-Text Citations"). 

Works Cited 

"MLA In-Text Citations." OWL, Roane State Community College, www.roanestate.edu/ 

     owl/MLA-In-Text-Citations.htm. 

Additional Places to Find Information

From home, you will need a password to access the databases. 

Recommended Databases

• World History: The Modern Era- ABC-CLIO 

• World at War - ABC-CLIO 

• World History in Context - Gale