Lesson Plan
Grades 6-8
Grades 9-10
Grades 11-12

Listening and Responding to Women’s Stories from War Film Clips

Film Clips

Vimeo: 2:33 - 6:56. We meet Grandma Gil, who embarks on a two week long trip to Japan to protest the Osaka mayor’s statement that it was necessary to have “comfort women” during the Japanese occupation.

Vimeo: 9:30 - 13:12 In Grandma Cao’s village in China, we hear from villagers about what they know of her experience. We also listen to author Zhang Shaun Bing, who has collected and published the testimonies of wartime sexual violence victims in the book Comfort Women Survey Records.

We enter Grandma Adela’s community in the Philippines and meet the community of fellow survivors from the war who get together for companionship.

Vimeo: 25:28 - 27:35 (2:07)We learn more about the work Grandma Gil does when speaking out on behalf of all wartime survivors of sexual violence.

Vimeo: 53:55 - 57:35 (4:20)Grandma Gil tells her story in more detail to a group of Chinese women as part of a conference.

Vimeo:1:15:05 - 1:17:00It is the 1,119th protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, where Grandma Gil and hundreds of others call for the Japanese government to apologize.

Vimeo:1:18:30 - 1:22:001.5 million signatures are delivered to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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