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Elizabeth Tilles (89) talks to her granddaughter Rebecca Tilles (21) and friend Susan Goldstein (66) about her life growing up in Germany and working as a nurse during World War II.

My grandfather, 95-year-old Denis Probst talks about his childhood, and his first wife’s struggles with mental illness.

Leroy Williamson was a bomber pilot in World War II. He was shot down in Germany and he spent 14 months as a prisoner of war. He appreciate Russians who liberated him from the prisoner of war camp. He went...

Interview my dad about being an immigrant

I, Meghan Garren, interviewed my great-grandparents Pat and Charles Stumpf about their life.

Kathryn Wooten interviews Dolores Henson, her grandmother, about growing up with a working class family in Glouster, Ohio, where most of her family and ancestry worked in the coal mines. Dolores remembers the two most important people in her life:...

About her life

In December of 2022, Anthony (15) interviews his grandmother, Sandy (67), who was born in England in 1955, about her life in England and adjusting to life in Canada, and then the United States. One of the main differences was...

In this recording, Grace Dagger at Coronado High School in Henderson, Nevada, records an audio file for the 2018 pilot of the Great Thanksgiving listen. Grace Dagger is in 11th grade and is studying english. My grandmother Shirley talked about...

In this interview, Sophie Traube interviews her friend and brother’s best friend, Max Hobhouse. They talk about their friendship, Max and Jack’s (Sophie’s brother) friendship, and his new life here in California for university after growing up in England. Max...

In this interview, we talked about his life growing up in post-WWII England, his years in his engineering job, and his life in America compared with his life in England.

Joan Hession talks with her daughter Susan Fuchslin about growing up near Birmingham and living through the war times during World War II. She talks about how her family’s house was opened up to different women and men serving in...

In Port Jefferson, New York on November 25, 2022, Avery Eisaman (13) interviews her grandmother, Carol Gavin, (71) about what it was like growing up in England and her childhood there. They also talked about what it was like to...

This is an interview with my grandma on my dads side who was a child during World War Two. During the interview we mostly talk about her child hood but also her memories from life in general.

While growing up in New Port, England Daniel Ireland(40) decide at about 8 years old that he wanted to immigrate to the U.S.A, but before that, he wanted to travel the world and complete his college education. In this interview,...

I talked with my grandma, Nanny (Jenny Stuebbe), about her childhood in England and the differences between England and the United States. Nanny also gave this as more background information: I'm Grace Hubbard's Nanny, Nana for short. I was born...

He grew up surrounded by the ocean being the oldest of three. Joshua Slocum enjoys Christmas and the summer. He remembers playing baseball and being called “Squashua” and “JJ”. His favorite childhood vacation was going to Disney World with his...

Joan Mickle was born in Liverpool, England, before WWII and lived there through the war. Later, she moved to the US and now lives in Ross, CA. She has 3 children and 7 grandchildren.

The life and career of Jane Newman, the founder of the discipline of account planning in America and founding partner in ad agency, Merkley Newman Herty in NYC. Jane also founded the Thorntree Project in Kenya which successfully educates Nomadic...

Martin Everall and Mike Hughes talk about coming to America from the UK 35 years ago, and how the two countries are similar and different.

My Dad talking about post war rationing in England

A conversation between a student and Victoria, an immigrant from England. They discuss differences between schools in the United States and England. As well as the struggles that come with immigrating to a whole new country at a young age.

Fafa’s story of her growing up and how she met Uncle Nader

This is a recording summarizing the life of my very interesting Uncle.

In this interview, Tania interviews Leeanne about growing up between England and the United States, and eventually moving to Norway, as well as the obstacles in moving. Leeanne talks a little about long-distance realtionships. They also discuss how what you...