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Betty Peak's husband got his early training in Victorville, California on the edge of the Mojave Desert. There were...

Margaret Kerry was born in May 1929 in Springfield, Illinois. Then she moved to California and lived there for almost...

Mary Konen worked for a Jewish dentist [Annotator’s Note: named Dr. Behrman] who performed dentistry work on German...

In 1942, Betty Soskin was a clerk in a segregated union hall in Richmond [Annotator's Note: Richmond, California]. She...

Peggy Upham was born in January 1924 in Dallas, Texas. She remembers the Great Depression. Her family did alright. They...

Norman Mineta grew up in California where the Alien Land Law existed. It stated that if one was not a citizen of the...

Adelaide Benjamin had returned to New Orleans, Louisiana from El Paso, Texas by the time the war ended. When the...

Virginia Hamilton wanted to go visit some German POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] at a work camp. The POWs...

James Lee went to Dachau [Annotator's Note: Dachau concentration camp complex near Dachau, Germany] on a tour. He can...

Gretchen Wronka’s father, Loren Hintz, was killed in action while serving in the Army Air Corps during World War 2....

Carolyn Bridgforth was going to be a dietician. There were very few jobs available to women. She did not finish her...

Marietta Estopinal Baham was born in Arabi, Louisiana. The depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression] was very sad...

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