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The German invasion of Belgium came overnight on 10 May 1940. Erna Deiglmayr heard the radio announce the invasions of...

One day in October 1942, when Martin Baranek was 12 years old and the SS [Annotator's Note: Schutzstaffel; German...

As a child, Christa Schneider said, living in the middle of the war zone was "terrifying." The roar of the airplanes...

Holly Reynolds remembers a lot of Army and Navy troops coming in. She also remembers Merchant Mariners there because...

Bluma Polonski began talking about her experiences with schoolchildren in Omaha, Nebraska [Annotator's Note: where she...

There was excitement at Constance Cresswell's officers' club when Glenn Miller [Annotator's Note: US Army Air Forces...

Maud Dahme's parents did not want to know what had happened to her during the years she and her sister were gone from...

Fred Manasse was born in July 1935 in Frankfurt, Germany, one of two sons of practicing Orthodox Jewish parents. His...

Eveline Peardon moved to the United States in an effort to find work. She was 26 and out of work in Paris. She had...

Fred Amram started to identify as a Holocaust [Annotator's Note: also called the Shoah; the genocide of European Jews...

Elfriede Clausen recalls waiting for the Americans to come to their village and free them from the Russians occupying...

Ted Winestone fled into the woods [Annotator's Note: after escaping from the ghetto in Dworzec, Poland, now Dvorets,...

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