Search Interviews

Grace and Isabel(16) interview their grandmother about her father’s family, immigration, and experiences in America, and our Grandfather talks about about his family too.

Fred Weiss (61) speaks with his mother Anna Weiss (94) about her life in Germany and the US.

We talked about money, the births of Johanna’s children, the holocaust, meeting her husband Bernard Saper, ambition, and more.

Ben Wick talks with his mother, Padma Wick, about the journey of her family to the US from Austria during World War II.

Inge talked about her mother’s journey across Europe near the end of the war as her and her family were fleeing the Russians advance.

In this interview Maggie Tritremmel spoke with her Opa, Herb Tritremmel and what his life was like growing up, in school, and in the military service in Germany.

My grandma Trude was eleven years old when she and her parents escaped from Austria in the early 1940’s, on one of the last boats to the U.S. Her entire extended family perished in the concentration camps except a couple...

The Nazi and Russian invasions in Austria

“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...

From Poland to Siberia, through Europe and Israel, to the U.S.