Alfred and Susanne Batzdorff Susanne was born Susanne Biberstein in 1921. She and her husband Alfred met as children in Breslau, Germany, which is now Wroclaw, Poland. Her parents were… read more →
Paul Benko Paul was born in the city of Cluj in 1929, a major business and educational center in Transylvania, which was then a western province of Romania. His father… read more →
Sopheap and Sophear Hang Sopheap is twenty-one and Sophear is nineteen. They were both born in Phnom Penh. They are the eldest children of Seng Kim and Thay Hor Hang,… read more →
Thay Hor Hang Thay was born in the northwestern section of Cambodia in 1934, in a small town in the province of Battambang. His parents were rice farmers. His mother… read more →
Ed Hirabayashi Ed was born in King County, Washington, in 1923. His father came from Japan in 1907 and his mother arrived as a “picture bride” in 1918. The family… read more →
Borin and Thy Kang Borin and Thy are from Phnom Penh. Borin was born in 1938. He worked in a government personnel and accounting office for six years, and was… read more →
Vera Korkus Vera was born in 1928 in Vienna. Her father had imported linens but in that time of the Great Depression he was a salesman. Soon after Hitler arrived… read more →
Walter Kuttner Walter Kuttner was born in Wuppertal-Barmen in northwestern Germany, in 1915. His father was a button manufacturer. His mother died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Because of… read more →
Margaret Murakami and Henry Masuoka Henry was born in San Francisco in 1915. Margaret was born in Sebastopol in 1930. Their grandfather was a member of the samurai class and… read more →
Mei and Shiro Nakano Mei was born in Colorado in 1924. Her father was both a farmer and a writer for the Colorado Times (he arrived in the United States… read more →