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John Ream remembers when people looked over the wall, they could see the 1st Cavalry [Annotator’s Note: 1st Cavalry...
Harold Luers arrived in Scotland [Annotator's Note: with Regimental Headquarters, 347th Infantry Regiment, 87th...
On 6 February 1945, the prison guards marched Richard Henry Hamilton and the rest of the prisoners out of the camp [...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Erna Deiglmayr when she knew the war was coming to an end.] The German military...
The Germans occupying Johannes Aalders' family house stayed until the night before the Canadians came in [Annotator's...
Guy Stern was present in April 1945 when the allies liberated the German army prison at Torgau [Annotator's Note:...
[Annotator's Note: Leroy Redmond served in the Army as a tank crewman in Combat Command A, 14th Armored Division and...
[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was a prisoner of war held at the Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp in Sandakan,...
On the evening of 3 February 1945, Thomas Crosby had gone to get hot water for his room monitor to drink a cup of hot...
John Kerner crossed the Elbe River where his unit [Annotator's Note: 110th Medical Battalion, 35th Infantry Division]...
A German soldier surrendered to Walter Sapp. He turned him over to the company [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st...
Henry Muller says that the XXIV Corp, Sixth US Army took over Bilibid prison [Annotator’s Note: Old Bilibid and New...
After the war, Robert Marich worked in television. A show he produced featured couples who had been married a long time...
[Annotator's Note: Robert Prince helped liberate the Cabanatuan Prison Camp, Cabanatuan City, Luzon, Philippines on 30...
Gale Ammerman went to England just after Christmas 1943. He went to Scotland first. He about froze to death even...
In October 1943, George F. Mills was shipped overseas and stationed in South Wales [Annotator's Note: South Wales,...
Micha Tomkiewicz, his mother, and one uncle, Stanislaw Tomkiewicz, were in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. They...
When Benjamin Hagans was on the ship coming back, his teeth started to settle. He put on 17 pounds in three weeks. He...
[Annotator's Note: Wynn Bauer served in the Army as an assistant driver on an M4 Sherman medium tank in the 36th...
George W. McCarthy was born in April 1925 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He father worked as a lumberman, but lost his...
Towards the end of World War 2, James Nannini was located at an outpost near Innsbruck [Annotator's Note: Innsbruck,...
Virgil Faust was a prisoner of war [Annotator's Note: in Stalag XVII-B, Austria] during World War 2. Towards the end of...
Don Carter's outfit's [Annotator's Note: Battery B, 44th Field Artillery Battalion, 4th Infantry Division] second...
John Edward Love and hundreds of other POWs' [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] continued to mine [Annotator's Note:...
Frank Dolsen, [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] became a...
When Robert Bassemir arrived at Cologne [Annotator's Note: Köln (Cologne), Germany with Company I, 3rd Battalion, 415th...
Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and the other internees at Santo Tomas [Annotator's Note: Santo Tomas Internment Camp,...
George W. McCarthy had lost 57 pounds when he was liberated from a prisoner of war camp. It did not take him very long...
In March 1945, David S. Wisnia had escaped Dachau [Annotator's Note: Dachau concentration camp complex near Dachau,...
Frieda Weinreich remembered two girls who ran away from a work camp and ended up coming to the Parschnitz Slave Labor...
Malcolm Johnson had been a civilian contractor on Wake Island when he was wounded and taken prisoner by the Japanese....
Anderson Wilson was on leave in Paris [Annotator's Note: Paris, France] when the war ended. When they had first arrived...
The first time Robert Spint saw a work camp [Annotator's Note: while serving with the 92nd Cavalry Reconnaissance...
Karen K. Lewis and her parents were interned at Santo Tomas Internment Camp [Annotator’s Note: Santo Tomas Internment...
Photograph. A building with "Hitler muss sterben damit Deutschland lebt [Hitler must die so Germany can live]" written...
Photograph. German civilians and infantrymen of the 3rd Infantry Division destroying Axis weapons in a street. Official...

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