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

Interview with my maternal grandmother, Anna Pieger.

Further details upon my father's family history and the people who make it up

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...

World War Two veteran and longtime Watsonville native, Al Hopson tells of his time in the United States Army Air Corps (now called the US Air Force). He enlisted in February of 1943 on his eighteenth birthday. His intention was...

My grandma tells the story of my grandpa during WWII

Interview with my grandpa about World War II homefront.

This was an interview I did with my Grandmother Verna (aka Moogie)

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

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...

Mitzi Miyoshi (48) interviews her uncle, Sam Terasaki (83) about his WWII experience in the Japanese-American and Hawaiian 442nd Infantry Regiment.

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

Cleveland during World War Two; advice for future generations

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.

Susan Gamson, 66, is interviewed by her son, Michael Gamson, 41.

Kibo interviews his parent, Hiroyuki and Maria, about having the same birthday, their first date, and being a multiracial couple.

Lorna Brown, lifelong Vermonter, talks about her experience growing up during WWII and differences between her life and the lives of her grandchildren

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...

Memories of the Cocoanut Grove Fire, his POW experience in WWII, and, throughout a love of family

Interview with my grandpa about WWII Homefront

Judith Sapper (61) interviews her mother, Mildred Sapper (92), about life during the 1940s.

Angela interviews her friend (and ex mother-in-law) about her family, her childhood, and her life.

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.

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.