We’re a small team with big ambitions. We’re creating a crowd-sourced online repository of oral history from the people who lived through World War 2 and we are asking you to help us.
The War Generation
That amazing generation who lived and fought through the Second World War is slipping away, their numbers dwindling daily. All too soon, there will be none left at all and World War II, like those conflicts before it, will fall out of living memory.
It is of vital importance that we capture as many memories while we still have the chance. Once they have gone, they have gone. Those men and women will not be able to speak to us from beyond the grave. But while they are still living, they remain crucially important witnesses to the most cataclysmic war the world has ever known.
We Need Your Help
Help us to find these surviving veterans and civilians, and to then sit down with them and record their testimonies. Their life stories. They have incredible tales to tell – these ordinary men, women, and children and from all countries who were caught up in something completely beyond their control. Ordinary people made to do extraordinary things.
This generation is so important. The second world war was an incredible and destructive war – every man woman and child was involved in that conflict. We need a record of these guys before it’s too late. Once they’ve gone that’s it, their memories will have gone with them. Help us capture their stories.
Dan Snow
We want people to record interviews with a generation that is slipping away. Help us collect the stories of people that experienced the second world war from all around the world. Help us record their stories before it’s too late.
James Holland
Please visit our Contact page to get in touch with us if you can help at all.