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Devoe, Susan Internment Camp Life
Susan Magnuson Devoe says that people had to adapt to camp life [Annotator's Note: as internees at the Santo Tomas...
Hart, Howard Internment Camps
Howard Hart was incarcerated in two of the camps on Luzon. First he was in Santo Tomas and then in Los Banos. Santo...
Halberg, Norma Interviewed for the WASPs
When the WASPs [Annotator's Note: Women Airforce Service Pilots] first started out, they had to have 200 hours [...
Baranek, Martin Introduction to Auschwitz
The Jewish prisoners traveled for three days in a boxcar, and when Martin Baranek arrived at Auschwitz, he faced killer...
White, Alexander Introduction to Mass Murder
Alexander White remembers that when the German army entered Dynow, the soldiers who encamped there were very impressive...
Winestone, Ted Invasion of Poland
Ted Winestone was born in September 1929 in Baranowicze, Poland [Annotator's Note: now Baranovichi, Belarus]. His...
Lewis, Karen Invasion of the Philippines
Karen K. Lewis was born in 1932 in Glendale, California. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...
Alexander, Joseph Invited to Germany and Closing Thoughts
In 2015, Joseph Alexander was invited by the German government to help celebrate the 70th anniversary of the liberation...
Hart, Howard Iranian Rescue Mission
Howard Hart used all the fundamentals of the Los Banos raid [Annotator’s Note: The Raid on Los Baños in the Philippines...
Samet, Judah Israel, Life Lessons and Reparations
Judah Samet had a difficult time connecting with Israel as an Orthodox Jew. He was eight years old at the time he...
Samet, Judah Israeli Defense Force
Judah Samet was a willing fighter in the Israeli Defense Force. Jews have been warriors since the time of Abraham. The...
Swinney, Lauren Jack Swinney
Lauren Swinney displays a hat from the 1940s with the V for victory emblem on the front of it. The V was a very...
Warne, Therese Japan Invades the Philippines
Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child living in the Philippines during World War 2] was eating...
Grant, Lydia "Diane" Japanese Attack
[Annotator's Note: This segment is the beginning of a second interview recorded with Mrs. Grant in the studio at The...
Drucker, Lillian Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor and Brothers in the Service
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Lillian Drucker if she remembers what she was doing when she heard about the...
Riddle, Pearson Japanese Attack on Wake Island
The Japanese hit their fuel supplies and it caused a lot of damage [Annotator's Note: on Wake Island on 8 December 1941...
Warne, Thomas Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
Thomas E. Warne and his family were living outside Honolulu [Annotator’s Note: Honolulu, Hawaii] where his father owned...
Bailey Pratt, Caroline Japanese Come to Manila
Caroline Bailey Pratt was born in June 1932 in Manila, the Philippines. Her father worked for the National Bank and...
Iguchi, Takeo Japanese Embassy
Takea Iguchi was 10 years old when his father was sent to New York to assist the ambassador. They moved to Washington,...
Devoe, Susan Japanese Invade Manila
Susan Magnuson Devoe was born in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Philippines] in June 1940. Her father worked as an...
Woodham, Greg Japanese Invasion
Greg Woodham was a small child living in the Philippines prior to World War 2. On 22 December 1941, his mother received...
Iguchi, Takeo Japanese Military Society
Takea Iguchi thought Japan had a superior identity. Iguchi was in middle school when Tokyo [Annotator’s Note: Tokyo,...
Iguchi, Takeo Japanese Society
Takea Iguchi and his family boarded a Japanese ship, and the Americans boarded a Swedish ship. Iguchi had a new bicycle...
Ream, John Japanese Takeover
John Ream had to learn what war was. He thought the hike to Camp John Hay [Annotator’s Note: Camp John Hay in Baguio,...
Imahara, Walter Japanese-Americans Working as Translators
Walter Imahara had an uncle who farmed with his father in Florin outside of Sacramento. His uncle had a lot of children...
Imahara, Walter Jerome War Relocation Center
They [Annotator's Note: Walter Imahara and many of the other Japanese-Americans held at the Fresno Assembly Center]...
Jeter, James Jetertown and the Military
James Jeter owns an apartment complex that serves military personnel. He has about two thirds of his 40 units used by...
Koenigsberg, John Jewish People Identified in the Netherlands
John Koenigsberg was born in Amsterdam, Holland [Annotator’s Note: the Netherlands] in August 1937. The war started in...
Henry, Margaret John Henry's War
Margaret Brewer Henry's husband, John [Annotator's Note: John R. Henry, war correspondent for International News...
Spangenberg, Nicole Joining the French Resistance and Returning Home to Paris
Nicole Sabbag Spangenberg's stepfather constantly listened to the radio to glean info on how the war was going outside...
Rosenberg, Justus Joining the French Resistance and the American Army
Justus Rosenberg [Annotator’s Note: interned by the Vichy Regime, faked an illness to get out of the detention center,...
Kruszewski, Z. Anthony Joining the Home Army
Z. Anthony Kruszewski was 15 years old in 1943. He was in high school in secret because the Germans outlawed schools....
Hagans, Benjamin Joining the Philippine Army
Benjamin Hagans enjoyed fishing. He did not wear clothes until he was six years old. He would climb trees and gather...
Pathe, Barbara Joining the Red Cross
Barbara Pathe was born in Bethel, Ohio. She lived there until she was eight years old. She had an older brother, an...
Deiglmayr, Erna Joining the Underground
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer mentions a book about Erna Deiglmayr titled "Erna's Children: Rescuing the Youngest...

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