Over 60 people have contributed to the project to conduct and process over 100 interviews. They’ve participated on one or more of the following teams:

• 3 investigators (all members of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies)
• 12 members in the advisory group, including representatives from the University of Waterloo and the community of Waterloo Region
• 13 research assistants (all graduate students from the Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies)
• 23 interviewers
• 22 transcribers
• 22 authors
• contributors for this companion website, which is currently under construction

The interviews were scheduled, conducted, transcribed, and then prepared for archiving. On average, each interview required over 15 hours of behind-the-scenes work. The entire process needed careful coordination, and everyone working on the project had to adhere to ethics guidelines as set out by the Tri-Council Policy Statement. (For full information about various stages of the project, especially the recruitment process, please visit the Waterloo Centre for German Studies’s website.)

Members of the local German community donated $20,000 to the project. The Centre has contributed the rest. In total, the project has cost over $70,000 as of April 2016.

This chapter details all the work that was carried out since the first meeting of the advisory group in 2012. It’ll provide an in-depth look into the amount of work needed to collect and present so many individual stories.