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Show moreMichael Simenic served in the US Navy as a pattern maker on the repair ship USS Sierra. His wife Albina—a fashion designer and illustrator before the war—worked as a draftsmen at The National Screw & Manufacturing Company in Cleveland, Ohio, during the war.
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Show moreEd Ormond served in the 317th US Army Band in England where he met and married Mimi who was a Jewish refugee transported to England from central Europe in late 1930s as part of the Kindertransport efforts.
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Show moreGoldie Szabo worked at the Higbee Department Store in downtown Cleveland where she formed "the Higbee Queens" and volunteered at Crile Hospital where she served on the events committee.
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Show moreJim Slater served in the US Army (1944-46) in Nuremburg, Germany, and at Camp Lucky Strike near Le Harve, France, where he met his wife Irene "Chris" Christianson.
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Show moreJoe Korosec was serving in the Air Corps as a crew member on a B-17 bomber in Europe when he was captured by German soldiers and imprisoned at Stalagluft I in Barth, Germany.
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Show moreJoe Foley served as an Assistant Surgeon with the rank of Lieutenant in the US Navy in Algeria, during the invasion of Sicily, and on Utah Beach during the Normandy invasion.
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Show moreJoseph Pyles served in the US Army's 92nd Infantry Division "The Buffalo Division"—an all African-American division—and was stationed in Genoa , Italy.
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