Interviews

Leonard Fisher was part of a top-secret topography unit, making maps of enemy territory, in North Africa and the Pacific.

Max Fuchs served in the 1st infantry division, and was the cantor at a Jewish service in Aachen, Germany, broadcast by NBC in 1944.

Leah Garrett is a professor and Director of Jewish Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York, and the author of Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Re-invented the American War Novel.

Eliot Hermon, who served in the infantry in field artillery, was among the first American troops to liberate a concentration camp.

Dahlia “Pobie” Johnston, served in the WAACs stateside, in charge of discharging personnel.

Sam Kessler, was a radio operator in the Army Air Corps, flying with his crew on a B-24 called The Pale Ale.

Mildred Landis, a WAAC, provided basic care for the wounded in a hospital in California.

Si Lewen fled Nazi Germany as a teenager and returned to Europe as part of the U.S. infantry. He visited Buchenwald soon after its liberation and later, created art portraying the horrors of the war.