Ethnic/racial identity

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Altmann, Judith Life at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Judith Altmann's life in Auschwitz started at 6:30 every morning. It could be very cold, especially when one's only...
Bodis-Wollner, Ivan Life at Bergen-Belsen
Ivan Bodis-Wollner does not remember arriving at Bergen-Belsen [Annotator's Note: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near...
Guderian, Emmett Life at Sea
The ship would reposition at Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands]. Occasionally, Japanese planes...
Synder, Harold Life Becomes Cheap
A Jewish boy joined Harold Daniel Snyder's group [Annotator's Note: 71st Bombardment Squadron, 38th Bombardment Group,...
Alexander, Joseph Life Before 1939
Joseph Alexander was born in November 1922 in Kowal, Poland. He had a good life there until 1939. They belonged to...
Sarosi, George Life Before and After the War
George A. Sarosi was born in Budapest, Hungary in January 1938. His father was born in 1900 in Pozsony. Pozsony was...
Acevedo, Anthony Life Before the Army
Anthony Acevedo was born in San Bernardino, California and spent most of his childhood in Pasadena. His father was a...
Yoshihashi, Tokuji Life Before the War
Tokuji Yoshihashi was born in January 1923 in Pasadena, California. He was one of five children. Times were tough for...
Knobler, Paula Life During the Holocaust
Paula Knobler is a Holocaust survivor born in the city of Lodz, Poland in 1928. She was 82 years of age at the time of...
Fayerman, Severin Life in a Concentration Camp
[Annotator's Note: Severin Fayerman was sent to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex in German...
Grunte, Leon Life in a Russian Prison Camp
Leon Grunte was locked up in a cattle truck going to prison in the Soviet Union. He went through parts of Latvia. He...
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...
Zilliacus, Patrick Life in America
[Annotator's Note: Patrick Zilliacus emigrated to the United States from Finland with his mother and brother.] They...
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-...
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...
Currier, Al Life in the Aleutians
Al Currier had many boring days [Annotator's Note: on Attu Island, Alaska as a member of Company B, 1st Battalion,...
Keller, Luba Life in the Camp Barracks
Luba Keller was sent to camp Work A in Skarżysko, Poland [Annotator's Note: now Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland]. They lived...
Komito, Joseph Life in the Camps
Joseph Komito was at Natzweiler [Annotator's Note: Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp near Natzweiler and Struthof...
Kanter, Joseph Life in the Field
Joseph Kanter [Annotator's Note: with 2nd Battalion, 406th Infantry Regiment, 102nd Infantry Division] became friends...
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...
Matsumoto, Roy Life in the Internment Camp
Roy H. Matsumoto was first forced into an assembly center which was a racetrack [Annotator's Note: Santa Anita...
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...
Hogan, Moses Life on Board at Pearl Harbor
Moses Hogan wasn't afraid. He didn't believe America would be attacked by the Japanese; after all, officials from that...
Oliver, Byron Life on Guam
Bryon Oliver boarded a ship in Norfolk, Virginia. Twenty one days after passing through the Panama Canal, Oliver was at...
Dunne, Edward Life on Ship During D-Day
Edward Dunne's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LST-53] had a big ramp that the tanks would go off of. There were six...
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...
Bolster, Elisabeth Life Under the Nazis
Elisabeth Bolster would visit with her father every weekend [Annotator's Note: her father was forced to remain in...
Brooks, Morton Life, Enlistment and Training
Morton Brooks was born in Brooklyn, New York in January 1926. He grew up there, with younger twin siblings, the...
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...
Thompson, Willie Living and Working on a Barge as a Seabee
Willie Wesley Thompson recalled a time when the ship his company was on was being bombed and he was holding on for dear...
Kleindienst, Alfons "Al" Living in America versus Europe
Alfons Robert Kleindienst had an uncle who was a Boy Scout [Annotator's Note: Boy Scouts of America youth organization...
Sawada, Lily Living in Chicago
Lily Sawada had a very innovative father. He determined that it was time to leave [Annotator’s Note: the Japanese-...
Lee, James Living in Chinatown
James Lee's parents said the attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941]...
Larson, William Living in Pusan
William Larson was serving in Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 1950 to 1953] when the Army did away with colored...
Herszenberg, Tola Lodz Ghetto
Tola Herszenberg was born in Lodz [Annotator's Note: Łódź, Poland] in October 1921. She had an older brother. She was...

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