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In late summer 1944, a German military captain was housed in Elvira Maria Katarina Algermissen Leskovec's family home [...

Clinton Gardner was born in New York City on December 26, 1922. The family moved to Larchmont, New York when Gardner...

Herman Molen remembers when they found out they were free. [Annotator’s Note: Molen and others were liberated from a...

Bluma Polonski does not find it hard to talk about her experience of the Holocaust [Annotator's Note: also called the...

William Leo Spaetgens was pulled out of the Navy Armed Guard in January 1945. Many men were removed from that service...

Frank Fontana and the 500 men in his outfit reached Paris one week after it was liberated. They went to Le Bourget...

Jack A. Smithson was born in Malvern, Arkansas in 1923. As a kid, he worked in the sawmill there. At about 15, Smithson...

Chester J. Butcher was sent overseas to England [Annotator's Note: with the 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group...

When Robert Spint was first given his assignment and reached his company [Annotator's Note: 92nd Cavalry Reconnaissance...

When in port, Thomas Payn said the Canadians interacted with American troops. He recalled one incident at a barroom in...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944.] They...

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