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Elliott, Lucy Working at Higgins Industries
Lucy Elliot enjoyed the work at Higgins Industries. They had fun because they were doing something important for the...
Alexander, Samson Working During Segregation
Samson Alexander worked at the American Drugstore as a 12 year old boy. He could read, write and count so he got the...
Libby, Dolores Working for Consolidated Vultee
Dolores McInnis Libby applied to work [Annotator's Note: at Consolidated Aircraft Corporation] because she had a friend...
Soskin, Betty Working for Kaiser
Betty Soskin worked in a shipyard in a Jim Crow [Annotator's Note: Jim Crow laws; state and local laws that enforced...
White, Alexander Working for Survival
Going east to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Maidanek, or Belzec, Alexander White said, meant going to the gas chambers...
Heming, Barbara Working in Germany, England, and Holland
Barbara Heming got a job in Hamburg as a bilingual secretary. She had claimed that she was proficient in English and...
Cohn, Marthe Working in Paris and Joining the French Army
Just a year after her sister had been arrested for assisting people fleeing occupied France, Marthe Cohn's fiancé was...
Bronstein, Isador Working in Washington, D.C.
Isadore Bronstein started at the lowest government grade when he went to work [Annotator's Note: in Washington, D.C.]....
Levee, Harris Working on the Atomic Bomb
Harris H. Levee reported to the University [Annotator's Note: Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago,...
Francis, Norman Working with CORE
Dr. Norman Francis left the Army after two years. The men he was with were drafted after college. They were in from...
Guitard, Robert Working With German Prisoners
[Annotator's Note: Robert Guitard was assigned to the Prisoner of War Enclosure 339, Prisoner of War Information Bureau...
Jaccarino, Richard Wounded at the Tanabaru Escarpment
One night, as Richard Jaccarino was sleeping under his poncho, the Japanese counterattack began. Just below their...
Davis, Jack Wrapping up the War
Jack Davis and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company D, 1st Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division]...
Max, Robert Writing a Book and Eli Weisel
Robert Max thinks back with satisfaction on his life because he follows through on Eli Wiesel's mantra of "Never Forget...
Weber, Norman Yellow Stars and Life in Berlin
As a child in Berlin [Annotator’s Note: Berlin, Germany in 1941], Norman Weber remembers seeing people walking on the...
African American servicemen opague negatives for weekly newsletter on 5 December 1944 in Reggio, Italy.
18.Photograph. African American members of the 92nd Infantry Division opaqueing negatives for weekly newsletter. '5 Dec...

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