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Seaman, Alice, 1994 April 25

Title provided by cataloger. Recorded on April 25, 1994. Was finishing up nursing school in Pueblo, Colorado when the war started. Also, was working in a hospital in Pueblo when the war started.…

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Redden, Evelyn, 1993 January 16

Title provided by cataloger. Recorded on January 16, 1993. There is a echo on this recording. Born in Kansas City, Kansas in 1918. Was a housewife at the start of the war.

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Price, Mabel, 1993 January 15

Title provided by cataloger. Recorded on January 15, 1993. Born in 1908. Served as Clark for The Selective Service in Belleville, during World War II. Remembers visiting her husband's parents…

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Palecek, Frantiska Brzon, 1994 March 31

Title provided by cataloger. Recorded on March 31, 1994. Mrs. Palecek was born in 1912. Her husband in 1905. Married her husband in 1934. Rural Electrification Administration (REA) brought power to…

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Miller, Merle M., 1994 April 28

Mr. Miller worked for the local newspaper The Belleville Telescope, in Belleville during World War II. Attended Kansas State University before the war. Talks about working in the newspaper industry…

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Kopsa, Wilda, 1994 April 20

Title provided by cataloger. Recorded on April 20, 1994. Life during World War II. Moved to Denver during the war to work at the Gates Rubber Company. Born in Nebraska. After World War II moved to…

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Herbolsheimer, Helen, 1993 February 11

Title provided by cataloger. Recorded on February 11, 1993. Life during World War II. Husband and brother served in the war. American Women's Voluntary Services (AWVS)…

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Hallgren, Marie, 1993 February 16

Title provided by cataloger. Recorded on February 16, 1993. Questions are about the time during World War II. Women's roles during World War II.

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Brzon, Narveene, 1994 March 29

An oral history project of the Republic County Historical Society regarding the effect of World War II on the lives of Republic County people. Mrs. Bzron talks about her Czechoslovakia heritage and…

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Frazier, Arlene Mahan, 1994 April 18

An oral history project of the Republic County Historical Society regarding the effect of World War II on the lives of Republic County people.

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Out of the Holocaust: Gerhard Heimann and Lotte Grünfeld Heimann Part 2

Part 2 of oral history interview with Gerhard Heimann and Lotte Gruenfeld Heimann. Gerhard Heimann, born on September 29, 1921 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his childhood in Berlin, where he…

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Margot Grünfeld Shafran: Escape from Nazi Germany Survival in the Shanghai Ghetto

Oral history interview with Margot Grünfeld Shafran. Margot, born on January 10, 1924 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her early years as a treasured only child; growing up with an extended…

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George and Alexander Tscherny: Escape from Nazi Germany

In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, in December 1938, two young Jewish boys, ages 12 and 14, boarded a train out of Berlin for Holland, to escape the escalating brutality against Jews in Germany.…

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Vera Sears Oral History, 2004

Vera Sears recounts her childhood growing up in Germany and attending the Berlin Opera School. She performed with a group of students in the summers, which gave her the background for her life in…

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Derowitsch, Huetta, 1994 May 17.

An oral history project of the Republic County Historical Society regarding the effect of World War II on the lives of Republic County people.

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Danielson, Lenora, 1994 March 30.

An oral history project of the Republic County Historical Society regarding the effect of World War II on the lives of Republic County people.

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