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Vera Goodkin [Annotator's Note: née Herman] was born in a small town of Uzhgorod, Czechoslovakia [Annotator's Note: now...
Enrique Cervantes was born in Fresno, California in October 1923. He grew up in severe poverty and experienced bigotry...
Peter Somogyi was born in Pécs, Hungary in April 1933. His father had a nice business. The family had a comfortable...
Philip Schultz was born in April 1919 in a tiny village near Minsk, Belarus. His father had previously immigrated to...
Howard Chandler was born a Jew in Wierzbnik, Poland [Annotator's Note: now known as Starachowice, Poland] in December...
Roy Uthes was born in June 1923. He had two brothers and two sisters. He grew up in a large home and was the youngest...
Kenneth Marshall was born in December 1926 in Grand Island, Nebraska, one of four siblings. His father, a hardworking...
Reva Kibort was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1933. She had four sisters and two brothers. The youngest of the children...
Willis Mills was born in July 1926 and grew up in Holyoke, Colorado. It was a small farming community. His father...
Robert Fisch was born in 1925 in Budapest, Hungary. He grew up there. His mother and father worked long hours each day...
Katherine Croft was born in 1939 in Bluefield, West Virginia. Her father worked there briefly as an architect, and then...
Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson is the subject of a book authored by her son [Annotator's Note: Hiding in the Spotlight by...
Jack Brukman was born in 1923 in Los Angeles, California. He experienced small town living near the beach. The weather...
Noah Lewis was born in March 1925 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He had a normal life growing up. His mother was a house...
Edward Field was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York in 1924. He was one of six children born to Eastern...
Lorraine Mesken was born in San Francisco, California in March 1928. After the birth of her only sibling in 1932, the...
Jules Levin was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1923. His mother and father were immigrants from the area known today...
Bernard Marcus was born on 14 May 1922. He was born in the Bronx in New York City. He lived there for 20 years before...
Peter Hirschmann was born in December 1924 in Nuremberg, Germany. He was raised there as the son of a patriotic World...
Ernest Gross was born in Turc, Romania [Annotator's Note: Turc or Turt, Romania] in 1929. He describes his lifelong...
Paul Takeo Bannai was born in July 1920 in Delta, Colorado, to Japanese parents. His grandfather got into the coal...
Judah Samet was born in February 1938 in Debrecen, Hungary. His family was Hasidic and his father was a Talmudic...
Louis Conter was born in Ojibwa, Wisconsin in September 1921. He had one younger and one older sister. The family left...
Herbert W. Ridyard was born in July 1925 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He lived a very basic life when growing up. There...
Eric Kahn was born in July 1929 in Wiesbaden, Germany. His father was from an observant Jewish family and fought in the...
Ernest Gross was born in July 1929 in Turc, Romania and he did not have a good life. When he was seven, his father and...
Edgar Marion Cole was born in Dallas, Texas in 1925. His parents were poor and he had to help the family financially...
Medary G. Boudreaux was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in June 1921. Prior to the war, he attended Commercial High...
Barney Hajiro was born in September 1916 in Puunene, Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. His parents immigrated from Japan in...
Ray Garcia enlisted in November 1942. He had been tested for the aviation cadet program for the Army Air Force prior to...
[Annotator's Note: There is a background humming noise throughout this interview.] Edwin “Pete” Goldberg was born in...
[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with the interviewer and Arnold Spielberg mid-conversation]. Spielberg was in...
Laszlo Schwarc was born in the village of Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, where his Jewish family lived peacefully among a...
Joseph Orlando was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in January 1922. He was the 11th child born but four of his...
Robert Madison was born in Cleveland, Ohio in July 1923, one of four sons of an educated black man, who held "all sorts...
Willie Wesley Thompson was born in April 1918 in Modeste, Louisiana. His paternal grandparents were former slaves and...

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