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Abe Milkis landed on Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. Rather than entering France as a...

Joseph Lesniewski went into the US Army Air Forces and was sent to California. He was in ten different camps while...

Joseph Dean Reilly was born in May 1921 in Janesville, Wisconsin. He was the oldest child. He had a younger brother....

Robert Max thinks back with satisfaction on his life because he follows through on Eli Wiesel's mantra of "Never Forget...

In late May 1945, Gerald Auerbach's crew was chosen to become the lead crew in the squadron [Annotator's Note: 881st...

Marvin Sussman struggled with readjusting to civilian life and had trouble making plans for his future. He attended...

Carl Platkin remembers they could not do anything about the flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire]. They...

[Annotator's Note: Bud Loring was in London, England after being rescued in France.] Loring was asked where he wanted...

Robert Christie was assigned to a repo depot [Annotators Note: replacement depot] and shipped overseas. He was sent to...

Moosburg [Annotator's Note: Stalag VII, in Moosburg, Germany] was a consolidation of prisoners from all over. When...

Seymour Mermelstein went to Bluefield Junior College in West Virginia for two years and then Rider College in Trenton,...

After the war ended, Baum returned to New York to get some of his wounds taken care of. He was so happy, because of his...

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