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Frieda Weinreich went to the Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp located outside of Munich, Germany. She met old and new...

Ruth Switzer was born in July 1934 in Vienna, Austria. Her parents were Jews who moved there from Poland so her father...

Jacqueline Bishop was born in March 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her father was an electrician. During the Depression [...

Leslie Aigner finished his apprenticeship and began working as a machinist after the war. He lived under a communist...

Frieda Weinreich remembered that it took a little while to adjust to the United States because she did not speak...

Ruth Switzer recalled living in a two family house. Her family lived in the apartment upstairs and another family lived...

Alfons Robert Kleindienst was born in Washington, D.C in March 1930. His father, Alfons Georg Kleindienst [Annotator's...

Upon arrival his at Auschwitz, Leslie Aigner saw Doctor Mengele [Annotator's Note: Doctor Josef Mengele chose who lived...

Isabella Karle was born of Polish immigrants in Detroit, Michigan in 1921. Her father was a Detroit city employee who...

Howard Hart remembers the rescue of the Los Banos internment camp [Annotator’s Note: The Raid on Los Baños in the...

Ruth Switzer recalled her father moving the family to a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York to take over a...

Jacqueline Bishop was extremely excited when the war ended. She was 15 years old. She remembers it was VJ-Day [...

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