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1. Oral history interview with Emilie Guth and Hermine Orsi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.34 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0034
Date:
interview: 1988 July 04
interview: 1988 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… rescue; becoming a nurse after the war; and continuing to practice the Protestant faith after the war.…
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 … was Bust, and she left Bust at age 16. 3:00 She became a nurse and worked for various families. She needed to work because her mother was trying to…
2. Oral history interview with Lotte Adelson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1052 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1052
Date:
interview: 1996 August 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… United States and becoming a nurse; and her two daughters.…
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 … nurse and she and her husband had two daughters. Summary Version 2 Name of interviewee: Adelson, Lotte Date of interview: 8/1/1996 Summary: Birth: Nov. 24…
3. Oral history interview with Karessa (Kay) Foldvary
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.37 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0037
Date:
interview: 1989 July 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Karessa Foldvary describes serving as a nurse in the US Army during World War II; working in field and evacuation hospitals (54th Field Hospital…
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 … Restrictions: None Libr. Catlg. #: D 810.J4 G7 no.88 SUMMARY Karessa1 Foldvary served as a nurse in the U.S. Army during World War II, in field and evacuation…
4. Oral history interview with Siegfried Halbreich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.13 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0013
Date:
interview: 1992 March 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… work as a nurse in the camp hospital; his role as Blockälteste at one time in Auschwitz; his participation in a death march after the evacuation of…
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 … there was no pharmacy, they put me into the internal uh disease dept. as a male nurse. And, after a while, they made me in charge of the male nu--of the…
5. Oral history interview with Georgette Reiszman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.98 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0098
Date:
interview: 1990 August 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… antisemitism during the late 1930s; being trained as a nurse; the takeover of her father’s business in 1941; the jailing of her mother on the first day of the…
6. Oral history interview with Rochelle Slivka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0229 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0026
Date:
interview: 1998 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her feelings of guilt; traveling to West Germany from Poland; becoming a nurse in Landsberg, Germany; immigrating to the United States; helping her…
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 … Poland; becoming a nurse in Landsberg, Germany; immigrating to the United States; helping her sister immigrate to Israel; living in Boston; her first…
7. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Lassers
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.38 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0038
Date:
interview: 1986 December 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… nursing student; feeling that nursing was an occupation she could practice in other countries; living in Germany during the boycott of Jewish businesses…
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 … age 16. She then attended school in Switzerland before returning to Frankfurt to become a student nurse. She felt that nursing was an occupation that…
8. Oral history interview with Gerda Haas
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0185 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0025
Date:
interview: 1998 September 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; training to be a nurse in Berlin, Germany; her deportation to Theresienstadt; her liberation from the camp; receiving aid from the Red Cross and her…
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 …Gerda Haas discusses her prewar family life in Anspach, Germany; her family’s religious practices; training to be a nurse in Berlin, Germany; her…
9. Oral history interview with Martha Bauer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.3 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0003
Date:
interview: 1992 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1933; her first experiences with Nazis in Kassel; training to become a nurse in a Jewish hospital; the changes in Germany in the 1930s; being accepted as…
10. Oral history interview with Gerda Seifer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1450 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1450
Date:
interview: 1983 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… for war orphans; her experiences in Britain; the work she performed; her education as a nurse; and her immigration to the United States in 1951.…
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 … Q. No. A. worked as domestic while was studying English. Then started nurses training in England and did fine. loved the profession. wanted to go into…
11. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Weidenbach
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1150 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1150
Date:
interview: 2005 October 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… time she spent as a nurse working with concentration camp survivors after the end of the war; her immigration to the United States in 1946 and her life…
12. Oral history interview with Sally Abrams
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.26 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0026
Date:
interview: 1981 October 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… nursing in Sweden and getting married again in 1946; her two sons being born in Sweden; and immigrating to the United States in 1951.…
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 … Gustav of Sweden while she was in a hospital there. After her recovery, she studied nursing in Sweden and married again in 1946. The family, now including…
13. Margaret Murphy papers
2014.299.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.299.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1946
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Murphy as a nurse in the Army Nurse Corps, United States Army, during and after World War II, including service at the liberated Dachau concentration camp.…
14. Bea Browdy letter
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0028 | RG Number: RG-04.042
Date:
creation: 1945 May 11
… nurse, at a training hospital in Manhattan, New York. During World War II, Bea was a nurse in the United States Army and served in Africa, Italy, France…
15. Oral history interview with Lucy Merritt
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0067
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s decision to leave Austria; leaving Austria to work as a nurse in England; securing the passage of her family from Austria to England; and her family…
16. Oral history interview with Simone Weil Lipman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.103.5 | RG Number: RG-50.865.0005
Date:
interview: 2006 October 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… false name of Simone Werlin, along with false papers, and passing as a non-Jewish nurse; being assisted by some Catholic and Protestant organizations and…
17. Oral history interview with Marianne Strassman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.882 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0882
Date:
interview: 1990 June 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…'s unsuccessful attempts to get her out of Germany; her experiences while in nursing school in a Jewish hospital; her family's deportation to a ghetto in Lodz…
18. Oral history interview with Irene Weber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.23 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0023
Date:
interview: 1995 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; attending an ORT school for nursing in Föhrenwald; graduating and then working in a hospital in the DP camp in Pokcing where she cared for survivors…
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 …,640 --> 00:10:57,210 I went to Munich, and I found out about that. 195 00:10:57,210 --> 00:11:04,130 And I chose nursing school. 196 00:11:04,130 --> 00:11:08…
19. Oral history interview with Pat Lynch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.14 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0014
Date:
interview: 1995 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Pat Lynch discusses being an American nurse attached to the 123rd Field Evacuation Unit during WWII; being near a subcamp of Dachau; how the nurses…
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 … the nurses and doctors 35 00:01:53,030 --> 00:01:55,970 Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim…
20. Oral history interview with Hanna Seckel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.20 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0020
Date:
interview: 1982 March 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; working as a maid in exchange for tuition to schools of nursing in Norrköping and Södertälje; losing all contact with her former friends while she was in…
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 … the Swedes and aid from the Red Cross. Hanna describes her life in Sweden working as a maid for room and board at two different nursing schools in…
21. Oral history interview with Faye Nelson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.294 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0294
Date:
interview: 1995 January 24
interview: 1995 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… States armed forces personnel; her post-war training as a nurses’ aide; her encounters with Jewish students and former prisoners; her interest in Judaism…
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 … gave her tests. 223 00:13:53,350 --> 00:13:55,320 She nursed all five Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a…
22. Oral history interview with David Ruchivarger-Levy and Zdenka Ruchivarger-Levy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0458.4 | RG Number: RG-50.413.0004
Date:
interview: 1994 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family; Zdenka’s work at the Oswego Hospital as a nurse with her first husband, who was a doctor, and meeting her second husband, David Levy, at the…
23. Oral history interview with Eva Deutsch Costabel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.380.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1045
Date:
interview: 2019 August 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camps, Kraljevica and then on the island of Rab; being liberated from Rab in 1943; joining the partisans and working as a nurse in the small mountain…
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 … sent me to another one. 1713 01:14:17,670 --> 01:14:22,459 1714 01:14:22,459 --> 01:14:25,320 I was a nurse then. Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
24. Oral history interview with Olga Adler
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0002
Date:
interview: 1982 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… ghetto as a nurse; life in the ghetto; her father, mother, brother, and sister perishing in camps; liberation and her return to her hometown; getting…
25. Oral history interview with William Dillon Hughes
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.21 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0021
Date:
interview: 1990 September 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camp inmates; handing over the camp to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Association in July 1945; and the role of British nurses in the camp.…
26. Oral history interview with Rochelle Blackman Slivka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.411.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0216
Date:
interview: 1990 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… States; learning nursing during her stay at a German displaced persons camp; immigrating to the United States and arriving in Massachusetts on May 18, 1949…
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 … skeletons all the time. And I was sick with typhoid and my sister was sick with typhoid and we weren't allowed to go to see a doctor. But we had to nurse…
27. Oral history interview with Sarah Widowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1292 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1292
Date:
interview: 1985 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… passing as a non-Jew; being liberated by Soviet forces; her education as a nurse; her marriage and the birth of her son; and immigrating first to Israel and…
28. Oral history interview with Genevieve Platner Allen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.51.2 | RG Number: RG-50.759.0002
Date:
interview: 1994 May 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Genevieve Allen discusses her experiences during WWII when, in 1945, she was a 27-year-old 1st Lieutenant nurse; being part of the 116th Evacuation…
29. Oral history interview with Ethel Stafford
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.31 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0031
Date:
interview: 1992 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ethel J. Stafford, born in 1923 in New York, NY, describes growing up in an immigrant neighborhood; attending public school; graduating from nurses…
30. Oral history interview with Eva Lewin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.15 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0015
Date:
interview: 1984 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… youth hostel; staying with a couple who ran a school; going to the United States after the war to become a nurse; continuing her connection with Mrs…
31. Lotte Seligmann family papers
2019.129.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2019.129.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1916-1995
bulk: 1924-1944
… brother, Siegbert (1909-1965). Her father worked as a cattle dealer in Marsberg. Lotte studied to become a nurse, and worked in Frankfurt am Main from 1931…
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 … material and photographs primarily documenting the pre-war life of Lotte Seligmann of Marsberg, Germany, including her studies and career as a nurse in…
32. Photograph of a United States Army nurse
Document | Accession Number: 1992.9
Date:
1945
…Photograph of a United States Army nurse…
33. Oral history interview with Marjorie Butterfield
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.3 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0003
Date:
interview: 1990 March 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marjorie Butterfield, born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1920, describes her Presbyterian family; her training as a registered nurse at Sewickley Valley…
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 … months in Camp Pickett, VA, and time in 9 other camps before being sent overseas. She landed in Liverpool on June 6, 1944. 0:04:50 The nurses heard about D…
34. Biruta Poyser photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.73
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1950
… postcard shows three rows of doctors and nurses standing outside the hospital. The remaining three photographs are individual portraits of survivors who…
35. Thekla Samuel papers
1995.A.1207 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1207
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1987
bulk: 1938
…Thekla Samuel (1916-1991) was a Jewish nurse who lived with her parents, Moritz and Jeanette Bamberger in Cologne, Germany. In an effort to escape…
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 … Thekla Samuel, a Jewish nurse from Cologne, Germany who sought refuge from Nazi persecution in Belgian Congo in 1938. At the time of increasing hostility…
36. Marsha and Robert Kreuzman papers
2018.598.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.598.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-2012
bulk: 1945-1952
… ghetto, Plaszów, Mauthausen, and Ebensee. His sister Mary also survived the war. Marsha previously trained to be a nurse, and worked in several DP camps…
37. Oral history interview with Phyllis Law
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.344.0009
Date:
interview: 1995 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…131st Evacuation Hospital Nurses oral history collection…
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 … Leroy, Pennsylvania and Troy, Pennsylvania and Grandville Summit, Pennsylvania and Newburg, New York for my training. Q: Nurse’s training? A: Mm-hm. Q…
38. Rachel and Richard Gutner photographs
Document | Accession Number: 1999.286.1
… nurse in the Elisabeth Hospital; Richard in group photographs of the boxing team in Feldafing, Germany; and a group of young people moving."..from…
39. Oral history interview with Erna Harding
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.320 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0320
Date:
interview: 2001 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Erna Harding, born in 1902 in Gera, Thuringia, Germany, discusses her childhood in Gera; her family's experiences during World War I; her nursing…
40. Oral history interview with Clarice MacLeod
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.344.0007
Date:
interview: 1995 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…131st Evacuation Hospital Nurses oral history collection…
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 … spelling or accuracy. 24 00:01:13,630 --> 00:01:14,980 That's about it. 25 00:01:14,980 --> 00:01:18,070 When did you decide you wanted to be a nurse? 26 00…
41. Oral history interview with Louise Birch
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.344.0005
Date:
interview: 1995 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…131st Evacuation Hospital Nurses oral history collection…
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 …:06,400 --> 00:01:08,620 I wanted to become a nurse-- 20 00:01:08,620 --> 00:01:10,540 he said to my mother, there's not 21 00:01:10,540 --> 00:01:14…
42. Oral history interview with Dorothy Maroon
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.344.0004
Date:
interview: 1995 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…131st Evacuation Hospital Nurses oral history collection…
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 … when you decided to become a nurse, or when did you do that? A: Probably about 17. But my family did not want me to become a nurse, so I took a year off…
43. Oral history interview with Herbert Wallace
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.886 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0886
Date:
interview: 1990 December 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The interview describes Mr. Wallace's childhood in Offenbach, Germany; his education and work as a nurse in a Jewish hospital; and the antisemitism…
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 … in to become registered nurse in ivJ9 1938 rather went to Lcipig to assume another oosition at the Jewish hospital there. And thats when all hel broke…
44. Oral history interview with Marie Ellifritz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.11 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0011
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marie Ellifritz (b. August 15, 1922) discusses her role as a nurse in the 130th Evacuation Hospital Unit; entering Mauthausen for the first time…
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 …, having 23 00:01:07,170 --> 00:01:10,010 been a nurse in Mauthausen. 24 00:01:10,010 --> 00:01:10,590 Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information…
45. Oral history interview with Ruth Kirby
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.344.0001
Date:
interview: 1995 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…131st Evacuation Hospital Nurses oral history collection…
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 … Grenridge, New Jersey and I grew up in West Hallwell, New Jersey. Q: Uh-huh. And when did you decide to become a nurse and why? A: I decided to become a nurse…
46. Oral history interview with Irene Zieske
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.51.50 | RG Number: RG-50.759.0050
Date:
interview: 1994 February 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Military nursing.…
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 …RG-50.759.0050 Summary Irene Zieske was a 30-year-old 2nd Lieutenant nurse, assigned to the 28th Field Hospital, attached to the 3rd Armored Division…
47. Virginia Longest photographs
Document | Accession Number: 1991.235
Date:
creation: 1945
… Wiessee, and other postwar images. The photos were taken with a Kodak Instamatic camera by Virginia Longest (donor), a nurse in General Patton's army, and…
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 …'s house in Berchtesgaden, 1945. On the back, it is written, "What was Hitler's home. Berchtesgaden Germany." 30. Photograph of an American female nurse…
48. Oral history interview with Roberta Jones
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0410 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0013
Date:
interview: 1997 May 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Roberta Jones, born October 15, 1921 in St. Louis, Missouri, discusses growing up during the Great Depression; enlisting as a nurse in the United…
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 … Oklahoma. Her father owned a grocery store and worked for FDR’s WPA. Roberta graduated from nursing school in January 1944. She joined the Army, was…
49. Oral history interview with Harold Cohen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.11.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0220
Date:
interview: 2014 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Military nursing--Austria.…
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 … the nurse. 202 00:08:45,750 --> 00:08:47,490 The nurses were officers. 203 00:08:47,490 --> 00:08:50,590 We were not the nurse's supervisors. 204 00:08…
50. Oral history interview with Mary Bergquist
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.344.0006
Date:
interview: 1995 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…131st Evacuation Hospital Nurses oral history collection…
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 … then I went in training in September in Saint Vincent’s in New York City. Q: And why did you decide to go into nurse’s training? A: Well, my aunt was a…