My Private Army

My 91 year old grandpa, Joe Jedeikin, was a young Jewish boy growing up in Switzerland during the Nazi Era. He tells a story about a fearful incident with the Nazis during his travels to his aunt's wedding in Latvia.

Emilys Interview

The Holocaust and the different perspectives about what truly happened

A Different Time

I interview my grandpa about his life growing up in a quieter time yet facing threats like the Cold War, fear of World War III, and other events like the Cuban Missile Crisis

Molly Peacock and Michael Groden

Poet Molly Peacock (73) talks with her husband, Michael Groden (73), a James Joyce scholar, about their sixty-year love story that was interrupted for twenty years. They talk about ongoing love, Mike's melanoma, the novel Ulysses, and the parallel lives...

Escaping from the Nazis

“My grandmother didn’t want to leave, and my mother, very bravely at age 24 went back to Prague and got her mother and her younger sister Mimi out of Prague with great difficulty… on the last train before Hitler marched...

Teresa

It's her vacation story, where her mother would take her during the summer. She talks about how her childhood was and how she was treated.

Thanksgiving

I have just interviewed my grandfather. And from what he has told me he has lived a very happy and productive life. He has told me about things I did not know about him when he was in the military...

Andy Ulrich and Bill Antholis

[Recorded: Friday, November 12, 2021] Andy Ulrich (42) and Bill Antholis (56) have a One Small Step conversation in Charlottesville, Virginia. Andy is an Instructional Coach for Albemarle County Public Schools and Bill is the CEO of the Miller Center...

Depression Leads to War

Addison K. Groff, a retired minister who was born in 1919 in Rochester, NY, but spent most of his adolescence in Boonsboro, Maryland, is interviewed by his grandson, Edwin Groff on November 25, 2017. He lived through some of the...

Are British people real? Watch this mind expanding interview to find out!

We talk about the meaning of life and the connections people are lacking. We also talk about many memories, both good and bad.

Interview with Helen Kuchta

Helen Kuchta (86) talks with her Grandson, Tim Burns (25), about her childhood and life lessons.