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Warne, Therese American Air Raids
Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: An American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] and the...
Bradley, John American Arrival at Santo Tomas
On the day American forces arrived [Annotator's Note: 3 February 1945 at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...
Yamamoto, Albert American Boy in Prewar Japan
Albert Yamamoto [Annotator's Note: a Japanese American who went to Japan in 1940] was enrolled in school as a fifth...
Cresswell, Constance American Forces in England
During the war, rationing was a way of life in England, according to Constance Cresswell. Each person was allotted two...
Warne, Therese Americans Arrive in the Philippines
There was an interpreter that could speak Japanese [Annotator's Note: in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...
Nakagawa, Ittsei Ancestry to Atomic Illness
Ittsei Nakagawa's father's side of the family came over to the United States [Annotator's Note: from Japan] around 1904...
Higgins, Francis "Jack Higgins" Andrew Jackson Higgins
Francis Higgins says a female off camera had his uncle in a spell. [Annotator's Note: His uncle was Andrew Jackson...
Schulman, Shirley Apart During War
Newlyweds, Shirley Sandy Schulman, and Hyman parted ways at a train station. Schulman headed home to Brooklyn [...
Boggs, Marie "Lindy Boggs" Archbishop Hannan
As a result of the war a few items from the Vatican were kept in the National Archives. Corrine Boggs was able to keep...
Brister, Delano Army Career
Delano Brister had a career in the United States Army. The Louisiana Maneuvers made a great impression on him. He...
Lee, James Army Reservist in the Pacific
James Lee was in the Reserve [Annotator's Note: Army Reserve] program and got to serve in certain parts of the world....
Weiss, Charlotte Arrival at Auschwitz
[Annotator's Note: Charlotte Weiss is a Czechoslovakian born Jew who survived incarceration in a number of...
Zygmuntowicz, Itka Arrival in Auschwitz
Itka Zygmuntowicz was 15 years old when she and her family were taken by train from the Nowe Miasto Ghetto. They rode...
Samet, Judah Arrival of the Nazis
Judah Samet was six years of age when the Nazis arrived in Hungary in late-March or early-April 1944. The invasion came...
Chandler, Howard Arriving at Auschwitz
Howard Chandler arrived at Auschwitz [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex in...
Manasse, Fred Arriving in America
The day after they arrived in Spain, Fred Manasse and his brother caught a train to Barcelona, Spain where they stayed...
Halberg, Norma Arriving in Sweetwater, Texas
[Annotator’s Note: Norma Halberg joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASPs in January 1944 and went to Avenger...
Switzer, Ruth Arriving in the United States
Ruth Switzer recalled living in a two family house. Her family lived in the apartment upstairs and another family lived...
Overby, Nita Assembling C-47s
Nita Fay Overby began working for an aircraft plant [Annotator's Note: The Midwest City Douglas Aircraft Company Plant...
Hayashi, Nobuo Atomic Bombs and Surrender of Japan
Nobuo Hayashi was suppressed with no freedom [Annotator's Note: growing up in Japan during World War 2]. He remembers...
Huval, Rudy Attack on Pearl Harbor
Rudy Huval was born in Covington, Louisiana in February 1934. There were nine children in the family. His father was a...
Gillette, Thomas Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] started at five...
Amram, Fred Attending School
Fred Amram paid a lot of attention to the war in Europe. His father listened to the news on the radio. As the war ended...
Boggs, Marie "Lindy Boggs" Attitudes during the war
[Annotator's Note: Corrine Boggs, also known as Lindy, was the wife of Congressman Hale Boggs then later took his...
Aigner, Leslie Auschwitz
Leslie Aigner and the other living passengers were ordered out of the cattle car [Annotator's Note: upon their arrival...
Schloss, Eva Auschwitz
[Annotator's Note: Eva Schloss is an Austrian born Jew who fled to Amsterdam with her family after the Nazis came to...
Chandler, Howard Auschwitz
Howard Chandler began to see that he would never survive Auschwitz-Birkenau [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz-Birkenau...
Wolnerman, David Auschwitz
David Wolnerman was born in 1927 in the small town of Modrzejo, Poland. [Annotator’s Note: Video Break at 0:01:45.000...
Chandler, Howard Auschwitz Kapo
Shortly after arriving at Auschwitz [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex in German...
Alexander, Joseph Auschwitz to Dachau
Joseph Alexander arrived in Auschwitz [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex in...
Bolin, George Awards for Excellence
At the launch of PC-567 [Annotator's Note: USS PC-567, launched 11 April 1942], George R. Bolin's father, Lodwick...
Aalders, Johannes Battle of Arnhem
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Johannes Aalders if he watched the Battle of Arnhem, part of Operation Market...
Zygmuntowicz, Itka Beaten by the Gestapo
Itka Zygmuntowicz was born in April 1926 in Ciechanów, Poland. It was a small town. They lived in two different places...
Thurman, Tom Becoming a Documentary Filmmaker
[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with Tom Thurman, an American filmmaker born in March 1962 in Christiansburg,...
Brown, Grace "Grace Janota" Becoming a Machinist
Grace Brown was at her sister's home when she heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...
Winestone, Ted Becoming a Marine
Ted Winestone [Annotator's Note: a Polish-Jewish refugee] did not talk much about his war experience with his new peers...

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