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Jeannine Burk was liberated in 1944. Her mother retrieved her and brought her home. [Annotator's Note: Burk, a Jewish...

Madeleine Peters remembers the Allies landing in France [Annotator's Note: The Normandy D-Day invasion began the...

Martin Sklar became an Imagineer in 1961 when he began work on the World's Fair [Annotator's Note: the 1964 New York...

Nathan Taffel and his brother were forced by the Germans to leave their labor camp and begin a death march. The weather...

Martin Sklar saw many mistakes related to sponsors for Disneyland in the beginning of the theme park. A brassiere...

James Crane experienced a great change in the Merchant Marine. He was concerned about making the first convoy, but he...

Freeman Dyson attended school with Frank Thompson and admired him greatly. He was an older boy with a grand sense of...

Peter Somogyi learned of Simon Wiesenthal from his reputation as a postwar hunter of Nazi war criminals. He first heard...

In June 1947 Walter Bank went from Japan to the United States and joined the Navy reserves in New York for the benefits...

Major Cohn sailed to France to attend university. He spent significant time on the voyage playing chess with a black...

Hana Zoltz has always had a difficult life. Even in American, life was tough. She saved her money by not eating or...

Harold Berkman returned to the United States via New York harbor. He arrived at night with the Statue of Liberty and...

As the war was ending, Nolan Ruiz's German captors had taken the prisoners and marched them west so that they could...

Norman Mineta was asked by President Clinton [Annotator's Note: President William J. Clinton] in 1993 if he would...

Martin Sklar realized that he [Annotator's Note: Walt Disney] was creating fads, popular songs, and new markets. It was...

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