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Betty Perritt on Going to Portland with Her Friend to work in a Defense Plant When They Were 18

From garage in Australia to a home in Cenrtal Illinois, to aprtment on Antwerp to a continuing life care community in California ... and many places in between.

Her family left Germany in 1934 when she was 2. Eva's journey of discovery & passion for social justice began in the American South; then she found shared values at Antioch College and with the U.U.community...

Later WWII in Nazi occupied poland

Life As An Immigrant

A project about Tom’s life in Japan and his thoughts of cultural issues.

How it feels being a mixed race.

Interview with Tom Venice

Renee Cirimelli recounts her childhood while under German duress, her transition into American culture, and how she met her husband in the United States.

Interview with Grandfather on Thanksgiving weekend.

Grandma Joyce's story: growing up on the farm, leaving home and life after getting married

Michele recorded a conversation with her mother in 2007. It includes many questions about her sister, Carol Ann Bulkley Johnson and her father Rollo Newman Bulkley

Interview with the grandchildren on her life in Romania, Argentina, Uruguay, and the United States.

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

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...

Originally a celebration of Black History Month, February 2018, Middlebury College's Davis Family Library has initiated a series of oral interviews, "In Your Own Words." In them, Literatures & Cultures Librarian Katrina Spencer engages members of the community who trace...

My grandma tells the story of my grandpa during WWII

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...

On monday morning recess, I interviewed Ms. Emi about her childhood and about her teaching science. She told me that she was playing outdoors with her sister all the time. Her school was in Malaysia and it was a small...

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...

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

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.

Interviewed our grandmother about her life.

I interviewed my grandfather in order to learn more about his experience living in a Japanese internment camp during WWII.