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Angier, John Stalag Luft III-A
John Angier was taken to Stalag Luft III-A [Annotator's Note: in Sagan, Poland] after being captured near Cologne,...
Inghram, Robert Stalag Organization
Robert Inghram knew Roger Bushell. Bushell headed the Escape Committee [Annotator's Note: in Inghram's prisoner of war...
Derrington, Clarence "Earl" Stalag VI-G
Clarence Derrington was captured by the Germans and taken to Stalag VI-G [Annotator's Note: near Bergisch-Neustadt]...
Smith, Rothacker Stalag VII-A and Liberation
Before they boarded the train, Rothacker Smith and his fellow prisoners were strip searched. Then, 52 men were loaded...
Ram, Walter Stalag XVII
Walter Ram exited the crammed boxcar with the other POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war]. They had trouble moving...
Bergbower, Harold Surrender and Incarceration
Harold Bergbower joined three Filipino Scouts who had been released from their duties in order to escape from Bataan. [...
Ernest, Malcolm Surrendered
[Annotator's Note: Malcolm Ernest was among the Americans who were surrendered to the Japanese in Bataan, Philippines...
Pbert, Herman Surrendering to the SS
Day-to-day, Herman Pbert just tried to stay alive, find food, and get ammunition. C4s [Annotator's Note: Composition C-...
Kibort, Reva Surviving after the Nazi Camps
Reva Kibort was liberated in a hostile country with no one to protect them [Annotator's Note: she had been an inmate at...
Vaadi, Eugene Surviving As A Prisoner
On 2 March 1945, Eugene Vaadi and his crew were shot down over Dresden, Germany. Once a prisoner of war, he was...
Griffith, Ralph Taken Prisoner and Shipped to China
When they heard news of the surrender, Ralph Griffith and his fellow soldiers destroyed their rifles and proceeded to...
Baum, Irving Taken to Stalag Luft III
Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] left the camp [Annotator's Note: after being interrogated at Dulag...
McKay, Edgar Task Force Baum to Return Home
Edgar L. McKay and others received orders [Annotator's Note: from US Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr.] to...
LeBlanc, Joyce The American Presence
Joyce Leblanc was working in the English land army on a farm that had military housing in 1942. One day, she spied a...
Frazier, Glenn The Bataan Death March
Glenn Frazier started the Bataan Death March with the other Allied POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] late in...
Inghram, Robert The Big Escape
Robert Inghram and the American prisoners [Annotator's Note: held in Stalag Luft III] were relocated from the East Camp...
Lesser, Benjamin The Bochnia Ghetto
Benjamin Lesser and his family entered the Bochnia ghetto. They had no choice. Lesser's brother-in-law, Michael,...
Acevedo, Anthony The Camps
Anthony Acevedo does not know much about Bad Orb. During peace time it was a center for health. Even so, Acevedo never...
McDermott, James The Great Escape Compound
James McDermott was being held in the British, North, compound at Stalag Luft III in Zagań, Poland. That is where The...
Burns, Lloyd The Hammelburg Raid
[Annotator's Note: Lloyd Burns was a prisoner of war in Oflag XIII-B in Hammelburg, Germany.] One afternoon, Lloyd...
Goldstein, Rosette The Hideaway and Her Father
Rosette Goldstein met her father at a farm after fleeing Paris. They adored each other. She was not afraid because he...
Sullivan, George The Japanese Leave the Camp
[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was a prisoner of war held at the Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp in Sandakan,...
Keller, Luba The Rape of Women Prisoners
Luba Keller says that the Nazis came to the work camps over time, and took people out. Some were killed and some were...
Pbert, Herman The War Ends
Herman Pbert returned to his village [Annotator's Note: Piedicavallo, Italy, after escaping from a Nazi prison camp in...
Epperson, William Three Days as Prisoner of War
William Epperson found the SS troops he faced at Wingen to be younger than the Germans they had fought prior to that...
Kleiner, Leona Three Years in Auschwitz
Leona Kleiner arrived at Auschwitz [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp complex...
Samet, Judah Transported to Bergen-Belsen
Judah Samet was sent to a large lumber yard [Annotator's Note: The first attempted deportation from Debrecen, Hungary...
Acevedo, Anthony Treating the Sick and Wounded
When Anthony Acevedo first arrived at Berga he could not see the camp. There were political prisoners there but they...
Dumas, Floyd Two Weeks as a POW
After he was captured Floyd Dumas and his fellow prisoners were marched to a small town and put in a basement. They...
Smith, Perry Vietnam
Perry Smith worked with CNN during the Gulf War as a military advisor. He also worked with CBS and Brian Williams and...
de Marcken, Christian War Comes to Belgium
Christian de Marcken's parents had seen the harbingers of war talked about how the situation resembled the prelude to...
McCarthy, George War Experience Overview
George W. McCarthy was born in April 1925 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He father worked as a lumberman, but lost his...
Schrader, Ernst War's Bitter End and Hans-Ulrich Rudel
Ernst Schrader was fighting in Russia near the Volga River and Stalingrad in 1943. He felt the Germans could not win...
Laubner, William War's End
William Laubner was in Stalag Luft III [Annotator's Note: near Zagań, Germany (now Poland)] as a POW [Annotator's Note...
Levy, Anne Warsaw Ghetto
Anne Levy and her sister were on a journey for two days before her sibling became ill and began running a fever. [...
Joyce, Josefine Wartime Germany
Josefine "Piepsi" Joyce went to work outside Vienna, Austria for the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force]....

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