Ethnic/racial identity

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Edgar De Pue Osgood was not shot up on any of his missions [Annotator's Note: as a navigator in Patrol Bombing Squadron...
In 1939, the Germans came into Poland and divided it into two parts. One was annexed by Germany and the other was...
Romay Catherine Johnson Davis [Annotator's Note: a Private in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the...
Rosette Goldstein was taught to not talk to others while she was sheltered by the Martin family in France during the...
[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...
[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...
[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...
[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...
Charles Kneflin was born in December 1923 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He had a very nice childhood. His mother was a home...
Jeannine Burk was liberated in 1944. Her mother retrieved her and brought her home. [Annotator's Note: Burk, a Jewish...
After training at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: near Hattiesburg, Mississippi], Roy H. Matsumoto heard rumors of a...
Ernest Jackson was born in Sumter, South Carolina. His family migrated [Annotator's Note: Great Migration, or Black...
When James Lee was a young kid, he was close buddies with a Japanese boy whose name was Toshi Yamamoto. They were...
[Annotator's Note: Annotator's Note: Gerda Klein can be very difficult to understand at points throughout this clip.]...
Ora Hicks treated injured soldiers using physiotherapy [Annotator's Note: disease treatment by means other than drugs...
[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...
Jeannine Burk always felt part of a group of people who had experienced much worse than she. They were all the new...
Enrique Cervantes was offered a promotion to continue his service in the United States Air Force, but by the time he...
[Annotator’s Note: Maud Dahme and her sister were reunited with their parents in April 1945 after hiding from the Nazis...
[Annotator's Note: Maud Dahme and her sister were sent to a Christian family's farm to hide from the Nazis.] They...
Betty Soskin works at the Visitor Center [Annotator's Note: she became a National Park Ranger in 2006 at the age of 85...
Ryfka Finkelstein [Annotator's Note: unsure of spelling of her maiden name which is Sushka] was born in Poland in 1926...
During World War 2, Rachel Lazarus and her mother were in a concentration camp together. She recalled one day, while...
Ernest Jackson received his draft notice. He did not know if he was going to qualify. He was amazed he passed that day...
Philemon Andrews Saint Amant was in the British Isles [Annotator's Note: the United Kingdom, with the 190th Field...
Albert Porche began his typical day as a fighter armorer by having breakfast and then going to look on the board where...
William Winter was born in 1923 in Grenada County, Mississippi. He came up during the depression on a cotton and cattle...
Jeannine Burk [Annotator's Note: nee Jeannine Rafalowicz] was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1939. Her parents had two...
Robert Boeke was assigned a jeep as a part of his intelligence and reconnaissance [Annotator's Note: as part of the...
[Annotator's Note: Maud Dahme and her sister were sent to a Christian family's farm to hide from the Nazis.] The couple...
J. L. Giroir wrote to his mother on the Fourth of July [Annotator's Note: 4 July 1944], and although he could not tell...
Oscar Culp was deployed to American Samoa [Annotator's Note: after joining the Marine Corps and training in 1943]. On a...
Raymond Downs was in the water for almost 20 hours with no food. On the horizon, he could see 27 shrimping boats. He...
After ten weeks of primary training, James Morehead moved to Moffett Naval Air Field [Annotator's Notes: NAS Moffett...
After ten weeks of flying the BT-13 [Annotator’s Note: Vultee BT-13 Valiant two seat trainer aircraft], Calvin Moret...
Nelson Constant's company [Annotator's Note: Humble Oil Company] hired 13 colored boys [Annotator's Note: African-...

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