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Ernest Huber, age 25 and his friend experience post world war 2 reconstruction by bicycle

Jean Crawley, 75, tells her daughter, Barbara Pann, 49, about growing up and working in Cynthiana, Kentucky, losing her first husband, and being a single mother.

We came to have many photo albums from my grandmother, Lotte Kramer, and her mother, Ella Faller, from the 1910s-1940s. Jean Kramer, my mom, looks at the album and narrates who the people are and family history, including time in...

My mom talked about a lot of things. She talked about her parents to about me.

Omi talks about her life growing up in Germany during WW2 and then moving to the United States.

In this interview conducted in Kansas City, Missouri in November 2017, Alyssa Walin talks to her grandmother Carol Moreland about her life experiences. Carol Moreland talks about her Dad who served in World War 2. She describes her childhood and...

This Nurse, Wife, Mother, and Grandmother talks about her childhood in the Philippines and her path to the US.

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Lev Raphael tells his friend Melissa Ingells about growing up as a child of Holocaust survivors and becoming a scholar and author on the subject

Our family story covering the immigrant experience via the former Yugoslavia and North Africa, and the Netherlands via Trinidad.

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Matt Doherty interviewed by his son Steve and granddaughter Emily Wilson at the Doherty reunion July 2, 2023. they discussed growing up on a sheep ranch in Ione, Oregon, in the 1930s and 40s, serving in the military and the...

Thelma shared the story of her first marriage, the start of their trucking company, her divorce and eventual sale of her trucking company, her trip to California and the accident that resulted in the unexpected death of her father.

Lucy Singleton, my great grandmother, tells memories she has growing up in Texas during World War 2.

Susan talks to her daughter about her childhood, her college life, growing political awarness, her pride in her computer skills and expectations of women who raised families.

Younger sister interviews big sister about her experiences as a child.

Drew Lamb (18) talks to Nana Jean (78) about her life as a brat, and what she learned living on a military base with her family.

My Grandpa had a very interesting life. I think world war2 play apart in his life such as joining the navy.

In March of 1945 Remagen was the last bridge standing across the Rhine, all the others having been destroyed by German forces. A pivotal World War II event, the battle to protect the bridge from destruction by German forces allowed...

Pedro Damasceno (17) speaks to Olga Giordano (96). Interview hosted by Pine Crest’s Photography Club at the Willowood Brookdale resident center in Fort lauderdale, Florida. c/o Pedro Damasceno

Pedro Damasceno (17) speaks to Franklin Lindsay (92). Interview hosted by Pine Crest’s Photography Club at the Willowood Brookdale resident center on August 9th, 2017. c/o Pedro Damasceno

We talked about growing up as a Jewish child in the ashes of the holocaust in Belgium.

David Esrati, 42, interviews his father, Stephen Esrati, 83, about leaving Germany before WWII, travelling to Israel and eventually the United States.

My grandfather grew up during the Great Depression and is of Greek heritage. In this he tells me how family history, where he grew up, what it was like during the Great Depression, the occupation of Germany, and many other...

Sharon Palmer shares the story of her father, Clyde Erdmann. Through stories of formidability, Sharon describes her father's view on life.