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From Adina Langer
2 plays 0Sarah describes how her parents emigrated to the United States aboard the General McRae in November 1949. -
From Adina Langer
2 plays 0Sarah Popowski describes a trip to Israel to visit the Yad Vashem memorial in 2001. -
From Adina Langer
0 plays 0Sarah Popowski describes how her mother and aunt obtained forged documents to enable them to hide in Warsaw, Poland under assumed identities to escape the Holocaust. -
From Adina Langer
0 plays 0Sarah Popowski describes how her mother and aunt were able to escape detection by Nazis through demonstrating a knowledge of Catholicism. She also relates the death of… -
From Adina Langer
1 plays 0Sarah Popowski describes how her mother made the decision to leave her village and go to a labor camp as a volunteer rather than be rounded up by the Nazis. -
From Adina Langer
1 plays 0Sarah Popowski describes what life was like for her mother in a Nazi labor camp in Poland and the cruel policies of the guards. Content Warning: This clip contains a… -
From Adina Langer
0 plays 0Sarah Popowski describes how her mother and aunt were helped by some Catholic nuns and the owner of a glass factory. -
From Adina Langer
1 plays 0Sarah Popowski describes how her mother got onto a transport to a labor camp in order to avoid deportation from her village by the Nazis. -
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0 plays 0Sarah Popowski describes how she first came to learn about her family's Holocaust experience. -
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3 plays 0Sarah Popowski describes how her mother and aunt were liberated at the end of World War II and how they return to Kaluszyn, Poland, to find out what happened to the rest… -
From Adina Langer
1 plays 0Deryck Cook recalls how U.S. troops maintained segregation in England during World War II despite a lack of prejudice against Black troops among the local population. -
From Adina Langer
1 plays 0Deryck Cook shares his memories of German and Italian prisoners of war incarcerated near his village during World War II. -
From Adina Langer
1 plays 0Deryck Cook reflects on the effects of growing up during World War II in Exton, England. -
From Adina Langer
1 plays 0Deryck Cook describes the trauma experienced by soldiers in Europe who witnessed German atrocities during World War II. -
From Adina Langer
0 plays 0Deryck Cook recalls how opportunities for fun, food, and leisure opened up after the end of World War II in Europe. -
From Adina Langer
0 plays 0Deryck Cook recalls what his parents did to support the war effort from their home in Exton, England, during World War II.
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Started in 2013, the Legacy Series oral history program preserves the experiences of Holocaust survivors, World War II veterans, home front workers, and other individuals who lived during the Second World War. Preserved on film in the KSU Archives, the oral history interviews support education, exhibitions, and public programs at the Museum of History and Holocaust Education. For more information on how you can contribute to the Legacy Series, please contact curator Adina Langer by email or by phone at 470-578-2083.
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