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Saul talks about growing up in Detroit, his childhood memories, and working in the junkyard business.

The struggle and trials during WW2 as an young boy in Holland.

LeLand and Leah Holstine talk with their son Eric about meeting, their respective careers, raising Eric and about Eric’s children Topher and Anna.

Childhood in England

How life was like for a kid during World War 2

Linda Dean Goolsbee tells StoryCorps facilitator Rose Gorman of her parents, Jack and Francis Dean.

Addison K. Groff, a retired minister who was born in 1919 in Rochester, NY, but spent most of his adolescence in Boonsboro, Maryland, is interviewed by his grandson, Edwin Groff on November 25, 2017. He lived through some of the...

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.

WWII and Battle of the Bugle veteran

I interview my grandmother on her life and experiences. We speak on World War 2, Vietnam war, the moon landing, 9/11, and more. She discusses her childhood memories and gives advice to teenagers.

Jerry Traylor"s childhood memories of WWII living in LaGrange, GA.

My grandmas past

Kohei tells his mother, Penny, about hopping trains, adventuring, and having a son.

My Papa, Mike Haverty, told me about life when he was growing up especially during the second world war. He also described experiences that have affected him and shaped him

Connie Evans (48) interviews coworker Dr. Paul Nussbaum (62) about his parents’ immigration from Poland, growing up Orthodox Jewish in Brooklyn, becoming a doctor, and raising a family.

Fran interviews her mother, Stella, on her birthday. Stella talks about her earliest memories and growing up on a farm.

Sahra Lee tells about her experiences in the world while she was growing up.

Lavera and Doyle Clay tell their grandson, John, about their courtship, family, childhood, and religion.

Slaughterhouse 5 podcast

An interview with Charles D. Carpenter, my grandfather, who was born in 1943 and raised in Michigan, Tennessee.

Interview of my step-father’s aunt hazel at cook forest Pennsylvania

The D’Ascheberg’s came to America in the early 1950’s from Paris in order to become blueberry farmers. This interview discusses why they got to Paris in the first place, and where they were even before that!

Dan Warschauer (76) and Aria Nelli (14) talked about Dan's family history with the Holocaust, his experience in Vietnam as a Chaplain's assistant, and about his hopes for the future. Dan’s family came primarily from Berlin.“ Most of my family...

We talked about how John Price felt before and after the war. And how he felt flying in his aircraft. For his complete story of being MIA/POW, visit www.purpleheartaustin.org/price.htm

Sarah Petersen (41) interviews her father, Thomas Bernhardt (87), who talks about a lifetime of changes from attending a one room country school house and living on a farm, to lessons learned in the army in the '50s, to living...