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Landry, Coleen Life During the War
Coleen Perilloux Landry was born in February 1936 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her family owned a sugarcane plantation in...
Baham, Marietta Life During the War
Marietta Baham worked in the mail and communications department [Annotator's Note: at Jackson Barracks in New Orleans,...
Swinney, Lauren Life During the War and Losing Friends
Lauren Swinney always had at least three occupations at the same time. She wanted to learn everything and do everything...
Fayerman, Severin Life in a Concentration Camp
[Annotator's Note: Severin Fayerman was sent to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex in German...
Zygmuntowicz, Itka Life in America
Itka Zygmuntowicz lost her whole family other than one cousin who had made it to Palestine. She does not know for...
Peardon, Eveline Life in America
Eveline Peardon moved to the United States in an effort to find work. She was 26 and out of work in Paris. She had...
Schloss, Eva Life in Amsterdam before the German Occupation
Hitler had invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland and the Allies declared war in October 1939 [Annotator's Note: Britain and...
Bailey Pratt, Caroline Life in an Interment Camp
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee taps a cup throughout the segment.] Caroline Bailey Pratt and her family were interned...
Alexander, Joseph Life In and After Concentration Camps
Joseph Alexander went through searches with American Red Cross [Annotator's Note: Red Cross, an international non-...
Hagans, Benjamin Life in Cabanatuan POW Camp
Benjamin Hagans remembers they were in the sea and the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese]...
Giamberardino, Anna Maria Life in Italy During the War
Anna Maria Giamberardino was born in May 1931 in Ventimiglia, Italy, near France. Her father worked for the railroad,...
Leskovic, Elvia Life in Nazi Germany
Elvira Maria Katarina Algermissen Leskovec's sister wanted to study medicine, but it was not permitted at the time and...
Hayashi, Nobuo Life in Nishinomiya During War
Nobuo Hayashi remembers listening to the radio and hearing how Japan had to attack Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the...
Lewis, Karen Life in Santo Tomas
In 1942, Karen K. Lewis and her parents were interred at Santo Tomas Internment Camp [Annotator’s Note: Santo Tomas...
Woodham, Greg Life in Santo Tomas
Greg Woodham and his mother were interned at Santo Tomas [Annotator’s Note: Santo Tomas Internment Camp, also known as...
Heming, Barbara Life in Schleswig-Holstein
Germany was changing for the better at that time. Barbara Heming's mother still had to work but was no longer working...
Zygmuntowicz, Itka Life in Sweden
After being liberated from Malchow [Annotator's Note: the Malchow concentration camp in Malchow, Germany, a sub-camp of...
Bouton, Helen Life in Sweden and the United States
[Annotator's Note: After being liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Helene Boulton was taken to Sweden...
Kern, Blaine Life in the 6th Infantry
Blaine Kern remembers listening to a boxing match when he came home on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence...
Komito, Joseph Life in the Camps
Joseph Komito was at Natzweiler [Annotator's Note: Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp near Natzweiler and Struthof...
Zoltz, Hana LIfe in the Ghetto
Hana Zoltz lived in the ghetto [Annotator's Note: the Lodz ghetto in Poland] as a young girl. She made few friends...
Woodham, Greg Life in the Philippines
Greg Woodham was born in Baguio, the Philippines in September 1937. In 1931, his mother had accepted a position to...
Frydman, Louis Life in the Polish Ghettos
Louis Frydman was called Lolak [Annotator's Note: unsure of spelling] during the war. It was a nickname his brother had...
Cohen, Jack Life in the United States
Jack Cohen finished high school and his father wanted him to study cosmetic chemistry in order to take over the family...
Bodis-Wollner, Ivan Life in Vienna
The Austrians registered Ivan Bodis-Wollner and others and put them in a dormitory. They were later moved into a posh...
Boggs, Marie "Lindy Boggs" Life in Washington D.C. during the war
Corrine Boggs, also known as Lindy, was in Washington DC on 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: the date of the Japanese...
Halberg, Norma Life of a WASP
Just before she went into the WASPs [Annotator's Note: Women Airforce Service Pilots], Norma Halberg and another girl,...
Rankart, Marie Life on the Home Front
Marie Rankart did not smoke but her sister did. Her sister would ask her to get her cigarettes when she came across...
Nathanson, Eva Life Under Communist Rule
During the Soviet era, there was not much food, so they did not keep kosher diets. They had to go to the grocery store...
Lee, James Life Under Martial Law
James Lee says censorship was the worst thing about martial law [Annotator's Note: after the Japanese attack on Pearl...
Davis, Edna Life with the WASPs
[Annotator's Note: Edna Davis had completed the Civilian Pilot Training Program and wanted to join the US Army Air...
Hope, Linda LIfelong Friendships
Linda Hope could not select one single favorite item of recognition given to her father [Annotator’s Note: Linda Hope...
Klein, Gerda Liquidating the Ghetto
[Annotator's Note: Gerda Klein, a young Jewish girl during the Nazi occupation of Poland, can be very difficult to...
McAuliffe, Edwin Listening to the BBC
Edwin McAuliffe was more interested in the war in Europe. He was also interested in the air war in England because his...
Gillette, Thomas Living at Puget Sound Shipyard
At Puget Sound [Annotator's Note: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Puget Sound, near Bremerton, Washington], Thomas W....
Warne, Thomas Living at the Del Monte Plantation
Thomas E. Warne was born in August 1930 on the dining room table of his parents' home on the Del Monte Plantation in...

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