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Hana Zoltz arrived at Auschwitz by train. Many people had died during the forced journey. They were confined in the...

Seymour Mermelstein was born October 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He was the oldest of three children born to Jewish...

Martin Baranek stopped in Modena, Italy, where he slept on the floor in a former military academy building operated by...

George W. McCarthy had lost 57 pounds when he was liberated from a prisoner of war camp. It did not take him very long...

Fred Hirsekorn started out as a gunner on an M4 Sherman medium tank. He had made PFC by the end of basic training. He...

Robert Swift is a big fan of the Indianapolis 500 which relates to his time in the military. Every year at the 500...

James Craig was waiting to get on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] to cross to the beach [Annotator's Note...

Lyle Bouck thought about escaping twice. Reid [Annotators Note: Bouck’s friend Matt Reid] and Bouck were on a detail...

Rip Rice did not have many interactions with civilians. [Annotator’s Note: Rice had just entered Holland.] They were...

Another reason Wesley Trindal crawled into the bunker was to take cover from the German and American shells that...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph O'Donnell was liberated by British troops and taken to Hamburg, Germany in 2 May 1945.] They...

At 0530 in the morning of 16 December 1944, they were shelled until daybreak then the German guns stopped. John M....

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