“Don't ever let anybody tell you they can do something to you. You're free, man. You don't have to take that.”

Ralph Tremonte and Donald Weiss, who spent their childhoods together in a psychiatric hospital, reunite after 40 years.

Recorded in New York, NY.

“And I asked him everything that I ever wanted to ask. I asked him to tell me the real story.”

Debbie Fisher remembers her father, an Auschwitz survivor.

Recorded in New York, NY.

“He went somewhere; you could see it. And there was no pain. There's a quiet dignity in there.”

Jesus Melendez telling Frank Perez about poet Pedro Pietri's final moments in an air ambulance.

Recorded in New York, NY.

“We were really pioneers. We were the Jackie Robinson of the Air Force.”

Roscoe Brown, Jr., telling his friend Javier Henriquez about being a Tuskegee Airman.

Recorded in New York, NY.

“I'm sure for the rest of his life he's had nightmares and he's had a tortured, tortured soul.”

Michael Crowe tells his son about his sergeant during the Vietnam War.

Recorded in New York, NY.

“I think my family saw them one time on the street, and they wouldn't even talk to them.”

Yvonne Powell tells her son, Gordon, about the Jewish family that lived downstairs from her in Germany, during World War II.

Recorded in New York, NY.