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Life, war, and wisdom

Brigitte Brown (75) talks about being a child in Germany during World War II. She escaped to Czechoslovakia and then was adopted. Her uncle reunited her with her family after the war, and she escaped to West Germany as a...

In this interview Vaughn talks about his World War II experience, specifically his 45th mission when his plane was shot down by enemy fire.

John (66) talks to his wife Linda (62) about his parents who were survivors of Nazi concentration camps, how they migrated to the U.S. and the trauma they faced in their lives.

Rita Dozier, 66, talks with her daughter, Dolly Sickles, 41, about her childhood and raising Dolly as a single working mother.

George Grabowski (99) shares with his daughter Eva Hoke (64) and her husband James Hoke (67) stories of his time in a German camp in WW2 after being forced out of Poland.

John Lillig (45) interviews his parents-in-law Seung Ja Lee (70) and Geung Goo Lee (74) about being born in South Korea, immigrating to Germany, and eventually settling in the U.S. Other topics discussed were family, golf, and travel throughout the...

Gerald (Jerry) Rudnick (68) interviews his uncle Alfred Klinger (87) about his European bicycling adventures taken after the death of his wife, Kit. Alfred went to Germany in part to visit Jerry, who was there visiting his son, and to...

Tara (34) and Amanda Hughey (26) interview their grandparents, William(87) and Jean L. Hughey (85), about growing up during the depression, memories of World War II, their courtship and marriage, and favorite life memories.

Helen Spiegel (90) and Frank Spiegel (93) tell their grandchildren about their lives in 1930's Germany as Hitler came to power, and they share memories of discrimination their Jewish families experienced, as well as stories of resistance (02:05, 10:43, 15:53)....

U.S. Army veteran Joe Hester (80) tells his granddaughter Bethany Weisberg (22) about his service.

Waltraud Ilse Kuerschner-Burton, "Wally" (70) tells her daughter Ariana Kramer (41) about her childhood in Darmstadt, Germany during World War II and immigrating to the United States as a child.

Billy Dahlheim (32) talks with his wife Katie Dahlheim (30) about growing up on a U.S. Air Force base in Germany, joining the National Guard, being deployed to Iraq in 2003 with his brother, his experience there, and two friends...

Pat Small (65) and sister Jean Coffman (73) disscuss the history of their mother, Florence Dixon Small, and memories of childhood.

Louis Segale (89) talks with his friend Monica Rizzo (48) about his life in San Francisco before WWII and his experiences during the War and the Battle of the Bulge.

Linda Gorham (58) tells her friend Gwendolyn Hilary (68) about being a professional storyteller. She also talks about what she learned from her grandfather who was a Pullman Porter, her passion for golf and how she learned about race in...