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Burk, Jeannine A Family Reunited
Jeannine Burk was liberated in 1944. Her mother retrieved her and brought her home. [Annotator's Note: Burk, a Jewish...
Burk, Jeannine A New American Family
Jeannine Burk always felt part of a group of people who had experienced much worse than she. They were all the new...
Cervantes, Enrique "Henry" A New Career
Enrique Cervantes was offered a promotion to continue his service in the United States Air Force, but by the time he...
Finkelstein, Ryfka A Polish Jew Flees the Nazis
Ryfka Finkelstein [Annotator's Note: unsure of spelling of her maiden name which is Sushka] was born in Poland in 1926...
Lazarus, Rachel A Promise by Her Mother
During World War 2, Rachel Lazarus and her mother were in a concentration camp together. She recalled one day, while...
Porche, Albert A Typical Day in Theater
Albert Porche began his typical day as a fighter armorer by having breakfast and then going to look on the board where...
Winter, William A Unique Childhood
William Winter was born in 1923 in Grenada County, Mississippi. He came up during the depression on a cotton and cattle...
Burk, Jeannine A Young Jew in Belgium
Jeannine Burk [Annotator's Note: nee Jeannine Rafalowicz] was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1939. Her parents had two...
Moret, Calvin Advanced Flight Training
After ten weeks of flying the BT-13 [Annotator’s Note: Vultee BT-13 Valiant two seat trainer aircraft], Calvin Moret...
DeMott, Joseph After Effects of Captivity
Joseph DeMott eventually lost track of the friends he made in the prison camps on Java. One of the men, who had part of...
Nelson, Walter After the Lexington sunk
Walter Nelson was only 19 years old at the time [Annotators Note: at the time of the Battle of the Coral Sea]. The USS...
Oka, Walter Aftermath of the Japanese Attack
Once the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor died down, Walter Oka and his siblings continued to watch the goings on for a...
Landry, Coleen Air Raid Drills, Her Brother Being Wounded and the End of the War
Coleen Landry's father was an air raid warden and drills would be held weekly. His job included making sure there were...
Porche, Albert Airmen without Airplanes
Albert Porche and the 99th Fighter Squadron landed in North Africa. [Annotator's Note: The 99th Fighter Squadron was an...
Baron, Judith America
Judith Baron got married and lived in New York City. Her husband did not like the city because it was too fast for him...
Radke Azvedo, Ingrid America
After surviving the bombing of Berlin [Annotator's Note: Berlin was bombed 363 times between 1940 and 1945] as a child...
Taffel, Nathan America, Family Reunions and Going Back to Poland
Nathan Taffel came to the United States and lost contact with his brother in Argentina. Taffel had a brother-in-law in...
Fisch, Robert American Liberators
Robert Fisch witnessed Jews working for the Germans while he was incarcerated. Those complicit kapos, as they were...
Schwarc, Laszlo "Leslie Schwartz" American Racism and Patriotism
Laszlo Schwarc wanted to talk about the World War 2 veterans. He said when he was in the displaced persons camp he saw...
Burk, Jeannine American Relatives
About three months after returning, Jeannine Burk's sister received a letter from a family named Mike and Frieda Savage...
Marcus, Bernard Ancestry
Bernard Marcus’ parents immigrated to the United States from Europe. His mother came from Poland when it was a part of...
Sparks, Bennett "Bud Sparks" Anecdotes
Bennett Sparks remembered that early in the war, before he was flying, one of his jobs in New York Harbor involved...
Weissberger, Ela Anecdotes from Terezin
In Room 28 of the Hamburg Barracks at Terezin, Ela Weissberger had three friends of the same last name, Hannah, Helga,...
Weatherwax, Clarence "Uncle Herb" Anti-Japanese Sentiment
[Annotator's Note: Clarence Herbert Weatherwax served in the Army as a communications specialist in Headquarters...
Leopold, Vernon Anti-Semitism
For Vernon Leopold, being from a Jewish background was unpleasant in Germany as there had been latent anti-Semitism...
Somogyi, Peter Arrival at Auschwitz
Peter Somogyi arrived in mid-afternoon in the cattle cars [Annotator's Note: after a horrible three day journey in a...
Weiss, Charlotte Arrival at Auschwitz
[Annotator's Note: Charlotte Weiss is a Czechoslovakian born Jew who survived incarceration in a number of...
Zygmuntowicz, Itka Arrival in Auschwitz
Itka Zygmuntowicz was 15 years old when she and her family were taken by train from the Nowe Miasto Ghetto. They rode...
Kaufman, Luna Arrival of the Russians and Freedom
Luna Kaufman and the concentration camp survivors stayed in place for a few days but the Russians were coming and...
Weissberger, Ela Arriving at Terezin
When Ela Weissberger arrived in Terezin on 12 February 1942, she found it "terrible." She had to walk about four...
Feldman, Henry Artillery Combat and Anti-Semitism
Prior to entry into France, Henry Feldman was assigned to Cannon Company, 121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry...
Muelder, Milton E. Assigned to the German Mission
Milton Meulder explained how George C. Marshall, as an aide to General John J. Pershing during The Great War [Annotator...
Espree, Elmo Atomic Bombs
When President Harry S. Truman said the war was ended with the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...
Bucksell, Norris Attending Mass and Racial Discrimination
While Norris Bucksell was in Naples, Italy, the churches that had not been bombed stayed open and he was able to attend...
Nossbaum, Anneliese Auschwitz
Annaliese Nossbaum traveled for three days by train from Theresienstadt [Annotator’s Note: Theresienstadt; transit camp...
Gross, Ernest Auschwitz
Ernest Gross was 15 years old when he and his family were ordered from their home by Hungarian police. They were...

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