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Marion Kaslon talks to her daughters, Karen Schlam and Terri Gilbert, about her family history in Brooklyn, her father’s business savvy and meeting and marrying their father.

Skip told Wilson about his memories of Smithville and about how it was when he grew up compared to today.

Interview with my grandpa about WWII Homefront

Mother and aunt's impressions of WWII.

Sono Begert (née Nishimura) travelled from Japan to Europe in 1939, just as World War II began.

Interview with my grandpa about World War II homefront.

Ross Goff (1922-2000) recalled his childhood in Tunnelton and Morgantown, WV during the Great Depression. He served in the U.S. Army Mar 1944 - Mar 1946 in Co K, 11th Regt, 3rd Platoon, 3rd Squad. Fought in four campaigns, including...

Hazel M. Pace talks with her son James T. Pace about being a nurse in Menlo Park, CA for the Army and tells about meeting her husband Bob at Dibble General Hospital, where she was working. Hazel and James tell...

Richardina DeMaere tells her granddaughter Monique Belli about her childhood and young adulthood in Belgium and what it was like to come to the United States.

Lucille Wilhoit passed away on September 3, 2016. I remembered I'd recorded two interviews with her for the National Day of Listening in November of 2010. She talks in this interview about the importance of music to her, and how...

Renee Cirimelli recounts her childhood while under German duress, her transition into American culture, and how she met her husband in the United States.

Dr. Warren Minami, National Japanese American Memorial Foundation (NJAMF) Chair Emeritus, recounts his early life experience at the Gila River, Arizona incarceration camp and its impact on him and his family, including their later involvement with Asian American causes. Unedited...

Betty Perritt on Going to Portland with Her Friend to work in a Defense Plant When They Were 18

Edward Bloch (87) talks with his cousin Meredith Skeath (71) about his father helping Jewish families escape from Europe before WWII, his courtship of Carol, how they started a family, and the importance of finding work you love and realizing...

Cleveland during World War Two; advice for future generations

Interview with the grandchildren on her life in Romania, Argentina, Uruguay, and the United States.

Later WWII in Nazi occupied poland

This is a first-person account of what a young Iowa farm boy experienced after the escort carrier he was stationed on was sunk and the harrowing 48 hours spent floating in the Pacific Ocean before being rescued.

Marie C. Flatley talks to her grandson, Robert Maliff, about her experiences growing up during the depression and both World Wars, as well as hobby of betting on the horsetrack.

From garage in Australia to a home in Cenrtal Illinois, to aprtment on Antwerp to a continuing life care community in California ... and many places in between.

In this interview, Taylor Allan (16) interviews Marly Meulemans (84) about historical events that took place in her childhood and how they influenced her later life. These historical events include the Polio epidemic and WWII.

Interview with my maternal grandmother, Anna Pieger.

I interview my father Kurt Thams about his father, Torben Thams, during WWII and how this made my grandfathers life challenging.

Kara Stoltze, 32, hears one of the happiest memories of her grandmother, Charleen Frescher Gunning, 88.

Edward Johnson (86 years old), the son of a D-Day soldier, recounts his childhood during WWII. His granddaughter, Alexandra Johnson (17 years old), asks questions specific to the situation of his childhood. He answers questions relating to the impact of...