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Oral History Interviews with Max Pila, 1993-1994

Description: Interview with Max Pila, a Holocaust survivor from Zlav, Poland. Pila discusses his family and Jewish background, antisemitism, the German invasion, life in the ghetto, executions, labor, transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, daily experience in internment, mining at Janina, the forced march to Bergen-Belsen, liberation, and life afterwards.
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Date: {1993-10-15,1994-04-01}
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Pila, Max
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Oral History Interview with Arthur Dodge Jr., January 8, 1971

Description: Interview with Arthur B. Dodge, Jr., a US Army WWII veteran from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dodge recounts his service in M Company, 350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division, which landed in Morocco and moved through Algeria in late-1943, before landing in Italy, where his unit took up position on the Cassino-Rapido-Garigliano front in March, 1944. Dodge describes prolonged skirmishing with German forces near Tremesuoli, Lazio, the breakout from Cassino, advancing into northern Italy, and … more
Date: January 8, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Dodge Jr., Arthur B.
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Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972

Description: Interview with Eugene Cronin, a US Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW from Kansas City, Missouri. Cronin discusses his time as a B-24 crewmember stationed at Cerignola, Italy, the kinds of missions flown, his being shot down over Hungary and captured by the German Army, and his experiences in captivity at Vienna, Frankfurt, and Stalag Luft #1 near Barth in Western Pommerania.
Date: February 1, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Cronin, Eugene R.
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Oral History Interview with Carlton J. Killgo, March 23, 1972

Description: Interview with Carlton J. Killgo, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW from Slocum, Texas, who was shot down and captured by German forces. Killgo discusses enlisting in the Air Corps before the war, training and becoming a B-17 crewmember, deployment to England, his missions, getting shot down, capture by German civilians, transfer to Stalag Luft #4, experiences in internment there, liberation by the Soviet Army, and return to the United States.
Date: March 23, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Killgo, Carlton J.
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Oral History Interview with Clyde Funk, February 22, 1975

Description: Interview with Clyde Funk, physician and U.S. Army Air Corps veteran, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans after being shot down over Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Funk discusses the Normandy invasion (1944), the shooting down of his bomber and his capture in France on October 12, 1944, his interrogation at Dalag Luft, Wetzlar, Germany, Oberursel, Stalag Luft 3-A, Sagan, Stalag Luft 7-A, Moosburg, forced marches, and his liberation by American troops.
Date: February 22, 1975
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Funk, Clyde
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Oral History Interview with George Bernard, March 19, 1976

Description: Interview with George Bernard, a printer and U.S. Army veteran (Company E, 1st Battalion, 334th Infantry, 84th Division), concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans during World War II. Bernard discusses his capture and interrogation in November 1944, Stalag 12-A, Limburg, Germany, civilian hostility, Stalag 3-B, Furstenburg (1944-1945), the forced march to Stalag 3-A, Luckenwalde (1945), and his liberation by Russian troops.
Date: March 19, 1976
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Bernard, George, 1911-
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Oral History Interview with Mike Jacobs, November 26, 1989

Description: Interview with Mike Jacobs, a Holocaust survivor from Konin, Poland. Jacobs discusses his family background and growing up in Konin's Jewish community, the growth of antisemitism, attending an integrated school, the German invasion and occupation, moving to the ghetto and life inside, collaborators and Jewish police, hostages, moving to a smaller ghetto, losing his family to Treblinka, working with Polish partisans, escaping the ghetto and working from Ostrowiec concentration camp, engaging in … more
Date: November 26, 1989
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Jacobs, Mike
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Oral History Interview with Lore Price, December 3, 1989

Description: Interview with Lore Price, a Holocaust survivor from Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Wesphalia, Germany. Price discusses her family, growing up, antisemitism, the Kristallnacht and subsequent growth of arrests and deportations, the Berlin ghetto, the Riga ghetto, the Riga concentration camp and events there, transfer to camps at Stutthof and Thorn, a forced march to Bromberg, escaping and hiding, becoming a nurse with Polish soldiers, the end of the war and immigration to Israel, and reflections on … more
Date: December 3, 1989
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Price, Lore
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Oral History Interview with Hilda Rubinstein Green, January 2, 1990

Description: Interview with Hilda Rubinstein-Green, a Holocaust survivor from Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania). Green discusses growing up in Memel, the Jewish community, her family background, Hitler, fleeing to Krottingen, returning to Memel to destroy valuables so the Germans couldn't take them, moving to Kovno, having a sympathetic German officer as a tenant, moving to the ghetto, life there, executions, labor, suicides, internment at Stutthof, her mother's declining health, a forced march … more
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Date: January 2, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Rubinstein-Green, Hilda
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Oral History Interview with Inga Czerner, January 4, 1990

Description: Interview with Inga Czerner (née Israelski), a German-Jewish expatriate from Frankfurt-am-Main. Czerner discusses Hitler's rise to power and the initial effect of Nazi power on Jews, her father's departure for Russia, growing up in Frankfurt, growing antisemitism, the Gestapo, her schooling, the Kristallnacht, hiding, fleeing Germany to England without her mother, loss of her family members to the Holocaust, learning her father survived the war, moving to the US and marrying her husband Albert,… more
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Date: January 4, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Czerner, Ingaborg Rosa
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Oral History Interviews with Max Glauben, January 1990

Description: Interviews with Max Glauben, a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw. Glauben discusses his family origins, growing up with Sephardic Hebrew, education, the invasion of Poland, losing the family business, the move to the ghetto and life there, people's different reactions to oppression, ventures outside the ghetto, escalating extermination by the Germans, Warsaw Uprising, transfer to KL Lublin, the organization of the camp, transfers to and labor at Wieliczka, Mielec, Budzyn and Flossenburg, illness, … more
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Date: 1990-01-09/1990-01-24
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Glauben, Max
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Oral History Interview with William P. Schiff, January 12, 1990

Description: Interview with William Schiff, a Holocaust survivor from Kraków, Poland. Schiff discusses his family, antisemitism before the war, the invasion of Poland, being put into forced labor by the Germans and Poles, the ghetto and survival there, getting married, experiences in internment at Kraków-Płaszów, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald concentration camps, liberation, returning to Kraków and finding his wife, and life afterwards.
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Date: January 12, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Schiff, William P.
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Oral History Interview with Alfred Czerner, January 16, 1990

Description: Interview with Alfred Czerner, a Army WWII veteran and German-Jewish expatriate from Frankfurt-am-Main. Czerner discusses growing up in the crises of the Weimar Republic, politics at the time, his parents' background, the Jewish community in Frankfurt and Jewish identity, his father's unemployment after the rise of the Nazis, fleeing Germany and moving to Brooklyn in 1938, news of concentration camps, work in New York, attending school and perfecting his English, becoming an Army intelligence o… more
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Date: January 16, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Czerner, Alfred
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Oral History Interview with Inga Pennock, January 27, 1990

Description: Interview with Inga Pennock, a Holocaust survivor from Berlin. Pennock discusses her family background, experiencing antisemitism and the start of Nazi rule, trying to leave Germany and hiding, increasing violence, Kristallnacht, losing family, fleeing to Shanghai, Japanese occupation and the ghetto, working as a nurse for the Japanese, living conditions, liberation, and life afterwards.
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Date: January 27, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith G. & Pennock, Inga
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Oral History Interview with Hanna K Ulatowska, February 16, 1990

Description: Interview with Hanna L Ulatowska, a Polish linguist and Holocaust survivor from Warsaw. Ulatowska discusses the invasion of Poland, witnessing bombings and atrocities, life in Warsaw after the invasion, the life of Jews, the Warsaw Uprising, being forced out of the city by German forces to Auschwitz-Birkenau, survival there, Josef Mengele, her family, escaping from Birkenau, Russian liberation, and reflections on her experiences.
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Date: February 16, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith G. & Ulatowska, Hanna K.
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Oral History Interview with John Pataki, July 21, 1990

Description: Interview with John Pataki, a Holocaust survivor from Budapest, Hungary. Pataki discusses his family background, his Jewishness, attending school, the arrival of the Nazis in 1944, being marched out of the city, living in "protected homes," being forced into the ghetto, Soviet liberation, losing his father, his life after the war, and reflections on the impact of his experiences.
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Date: July 21, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Pataki, John
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Oral History Interview with W. D. Whitson, November 15, 1995

Description: Transcript of an interview with William D. Whitson, a businessman and an Army Air Corps veteran (442nd Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force), from Denton, Texas, concerning his experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Whitson discusses flight training, his flight from the U.S. to Grafton-Underwood, England, his personal relationship with Curtis Le May, his missions and German defenses, his nineteenth mission and crash landing, and his twenty-fifth mission.
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Date: November 15, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Whitson, William D.
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Oral History Interview with Warren Whitson, Jr., November 22, 1995

Description: Warren Whitson, Jr., a businessman and an Army Air Corps veteran (493rd Bomb Group, 860th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Whitson discusses his pre-flight and flight training in 1943, his assignment to the 493rd Bomb Group, 860th Bomb Squadron at Stone, England, the characteristics of the B-17G, his first mission in Berlin, problems with flak, tactics to counter German radar, his engine trouble and crash land… more
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Date: November 22, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Whitson, Warren, Jr.
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Oral History Interview with William Smeltzer, August 3, 1996

Description: Interview with William Smeltzer, a Army WWII veteran and Navy contractor from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. Smeltzer discusses quitting high school and moving to California in 1940, experiences working at Mare and Pearl Harbor Navy Yards as a civilian contractor before and after the start of the war, the raising of the sunken USS Oklahoma (BB-37), being drafted into the Army and infantry training, assignment to the 45th Infantry Division and participating in the drive into Germany, the end of the… more
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Date: August 3, 1996
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Smeltzer, William
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Oral History Interview with Richard Donley, February 22, 1997

Description: Interview with Navy veteran Richard Donley. The interview includes Donley's personal experiences about the Mediterranean Theater during World War II, boot camp, Fleet Torpedo School, encounters with German "F-lighter" armed barges and E-boats, various assignments, and combat against enemy destroyers. Donley also talks about screening operations for the invasions of Sicily and Salerno, operations along the coasts of northern Italy and southern France and the interdiction of German barge traffic,… more
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Date: February 22, 1997
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Donley, Richard
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Oral History Interview with Harry Strawn, August 16, 1997

Description: Transcript of an interview with Harry C. Strawn, Army Air Forces veteran (31st Fighter Group, 12th Air Force; and 413th Fighter Group, 14th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a fighter pilot in the European, Mediterranean, and Pacific Theaters during World War II. Appendix includes the introduction to "In a now forgotten sky: the 31st fighter group in WW2" by Dennis C. Kucera.
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Date: August 16, 1997
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Strawn, Harry C., 1918-
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Oral History Interview with Jack Browder, January 15, 1998

Description: Interview with Jack Browder, a Army WWII veteran from Duncan, Oklahoma. Browder was a staff officer with the 741st Tank Battalion in Europe; he recounts his education and entry to active duty in 1941, transfer to the new 741st, armor training and exercises, duties as a supply officer, preparations for the Normandy invasion, DD tanks, D-Day, attachment to the 2nd Infantry Division and advances through northern France, the M4 Sherman, his thoughts on General George S. Patton, the Battle of Saint … more
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Date: January 15, 1998
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Browder, Jack
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Oral History Interview with General Alexander R. Bolling, Jr., July 15, 1998

Description: Interview with General Alexander R. Bolling, Jr., concerning his experiences as an infantry platoon leader (3rd Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 302nd Regiment, 94th Infantry Division) in the European Theater during World War II.
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Date: July 15, 1998
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Lane, Peter B. & Bolling, Alexander R. (Alexander Russell), 1922-
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Oral History Interview with Glenn C. Blouse, August 3, 1998

Description: Interview with Glenn C. Blouse, a Army WWII veteran from Long Level, Pennsylvania. Blouse discusses his family life, being drafted, basic training, deployment to the European Theater via North Africa, assignment to the 135th Infantry, 34th Infantry Division in Italy, duties as a machine gunner, first combat experiences, fighting on the Monte Cassino front, foxhole life, shelling, tactics, taking prisoners, Italian civilians, the Anzio landing, assaulting a hill, liberating Rome, the Apennines C… more
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Date: August 3, 1998
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Blouse, Glenn C.
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