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Doroff, Lorraine Joining the WACS
Lorraine Doroff signed up for the Women Auxiliary Army [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Auxiliary Army Corps or WAAC;...
Gross, Ernest Journey to Auschwitz
In April 1944, the day after Passover, two Hungarian police officers woke the family of Ernest Gross, and told them...
Switzer, Ruth Journey to England
Ruth Switzer was born in July 1934 in Vienna, Austria. Her parents were Jews who moved there from Poland so her father...
Weber, Norman Journey to Germany
Norman Weber’s family returned to Germany despite his father wanting to stay in America forever. Weber’s parents had...
Fayerman, Severin Kamionka and then Auschwitz
[Annotator's Note: Severin Fayerman left the defeated Polish Army to work in his family’s factory in Bedzin, Silesia,...
Negrotto, Constance Keeping up with the War
Constance Negrotto had cousins and friends who were all over the place during the war. They kept her informed of what...
McAuliffe, Edwin Kenneth McAuliffe and the War Effort
Kenneth [Annotators Note: Edwin McAuliffe's brother] was five years older than McAuliffe. Kenneth went to St....
Gillette, Thomas Korean War and Career
After Thomas W. Gillette completed college, the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953...
Kleindienst, Alfons "Al" Korean War and Family
Alfons Robert Kleindienst would often send canned food and other items to his parents in Germany because they had a...
Amram, Fred Kristallnacht
Fred Amram remembers going to the park. His parents talked about their experiences. He has a memory of being hungry....
Bouton, Helen Krupp Ammunition Factory
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Helene Bouton to talk about life in a concentration camp.] There was only one...
Bloch, Itka Labor Camp
Itka Bloch was sick when she was working in a factory. She worked on a large machine. The German lady liked her and...
Winestone, Ted Labor Camp and Reflections
Ted Winestone [Annotator's Note: a Polish Jewish immigrant to the United States] was in a labor camp during World War 2...
Kearney, George Landing Craft
[Annotator's Note: George Kearney grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and was an employee of Higgins Industries from 1937...
Aigner, Leslie Landsberg and Kaufering Camps
Leslie Aigner walked through the outskirts of Landsberg. A fellow prisoner pointed out the prison where Hitler [...
Brooks, Leonard Last Months of House Arrest
[Annotator's Note: Leonard Brooks and his family lived just outside of Manila in the Philippines. Following the...
Howie, Alice Last Thoughts
[Annotator's Note: Alice Howie's husband was killed in an aerial dogfight in Europe.] Howie was very sad when the war...
Deiglmayr, Erna Last Thoughts
[Annotator's Note: Erna Deiglmayr worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, UNRRA, in...
Bolin, George Launching Destroyer Escorts
George R. Bolin could only go out to the shipyard [Annotator's Note: Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas] on a...
Swinney, Lauren Lauren Bacall, Meeting her Future Husband and Postwar Career
Lauren Swinney wrote an hour long show called Lauren Does Bacall. She has been planning to perform the show but Jim [...
Baranek, Martin Leaving a Legacy
It wasn't easy for Martin Baranek to fit into society after the war because his formative years were bereft of...
Rothenberg, Judith Leaving Belgium
Judith Rothenberg's [Annotator's Note: a Belgian Jewish child at the time of the war] recalls her father left them [...
Gillette, Thomas Leaving Pearl Harbor
Right after the attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Thomas W....
Downs, Raymond Leaving South America
When the war broke out [Annotator's Note: Downs is referring to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...
Bridgforth, Carolyn Letters Back and Forth
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Carolyn Bridgforth what the letters exchanged with her husband while he was at...
Hope, Linda Letters to Bob Hope
Linda Hope thanks God for the amazing secretary employed by her dad during the war [Annotator’s Note: Linda Hope is the...
Dahme, Maud Liberated and Reunited
[Annotator's Note: Maud Dahme and her sister were hiding from the Nazis with a Christian family in Elburg, Netherlands...
Bodis-Wollner, Ivan Liberated by Americans
Ivan Bodis-Wollner was put on trains and taken from Bergen-Belsen [Annotator's Note: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp...
Zygmuntowicz, Itka Liberated by the Swedish Red Cross
Itka Zygmuntowicz stayed in Auschwitz until 18 January 1945 when she and the other inmates were marched out of the camp...
Koenigsberg, John Liberation
John Koenigsberg’s mother escaped to another region in Holland [Annotator’s Note: the Netherlands]. His father worked...
Hagans, Benjamin Liberation
Benjamin Hagans was in Cabanatuan [Annotator’s Note: Cabanatuan, Philippines] for all of 1944 and part of 1945. He...
Baranek, Martin Liberation
The concentration camp at Mauthausen, Austria was infested with lice, and Martin Baranek said conditions were worse...
Bloch, Itka Liberation
Itka Bloch remembers the first tank coming in [Annotator's Note: to liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near...
Peardon, Eveline Liberation
Eveline Peardon and her siblings visited the young soldiers every day after D-Day [Annotator’s Note: the 6 June 1944...
Noe, Leanne Liberation
Leanne Blinzler Noe [Annotator's note: a child internee at Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila Internment Camp,...

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