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The judges at the essay contest [Annotators Note: in New York] were distinguished writers and figureheads. Erickson...

Alvin Sniff did numerous trips to the Mediterranean Sea while he was a career Navy man. He recalled when the Navy...

Jack Leaming [Annotator's Note: with Scouting Squadron Six (VS-6) aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] went to Honolulu [...

The young men were gone, and women were needed to work. Mildred "Jean" Liparoto's sister-in-law started working at...

Philip Sciortino was sent to work at a refrigeration unit in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines] when...

During the war, rationing was a way of life in England, according to Constance Cresswell. Each person was allotted two...

Helen Ehlers started working before she joined the service. She went back to work for Western Electric after her...

Lauren Swinney picked up words during the war like ersatz which meant a substitute for something. She recalls the pin-...

After surviving the bombing of Berlin [Annotator's Note: Berlin was bombed 363 times between 1940 and 1945] as a child...

Going east to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Maidanek, or Belzec, Alexander White said, meant going to the gas chambers...

Raymond Zager ended up joining an army chorus group to stay busy during his occupation duty. He travelled around and...

None of the Jews deported with Laszlo Schwarc knew what Auschwitz was. The SS [Annotator's Note: Schutzstaffel, the...

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