324 pages : 20 cm
Topics: Amery, John, 1912-1945, Joyce, William, 1906-1946, Cole, Harold, 1906-1946, Pleasants, Eric, World...
Sherwood Jesse Franks was born in 1924 in Cary, N.C. His father and mother ran a cotton farm, and later after the start of the Great Depression they began a dairy farm around 1931. Sherwood's mother was a teacher at a local school in the Cary area. Franks served in the U.S. Navy during WWII as a Navy Armed Guard member on Liberty ships traveling around the world.
Topics: Liberty ships, Military history, Oral histories, Oral history, Personal narratives, Retired...
Joe Thomas Knott Jr. (who went by "J.T.") was born on April 16, 1926 outside of Zebulon in Wake County, North Carolina, to Joe and Ethel Knott. Knott's father was a farmer who raised tobacco, corn, and wheat. He graduated from Wakeland High School High School. He registered for the U.S. military on April 18, 1944. Knott served in the U.S. Army during World War II, from September 13, 1944 to December 2, 1945. He served with the 94th Infantry Division, reaching the rank of Corporal...
Topics: Military history, Oral histories, Oral history, Personal narratives, Retired military personnel,...
67
67
May 4, 2017
05/17
May 4, 2017
texts
eye 67
favorite 0
comment 0
George Rivetz was drafted into the United States Army in June, 1942. After basic training, he was assigned to the Army postal service in Boston, where he served from 1942 to 1944. He was then assigned to Post Exchange (PX) service on troopships, selling troops goods. He finished service in San Francisco in 1946. He received numerous overseas ribbons and medals. He discusses his numerous trips to and from Europe, Africa, and Asia, his experiences during battles and ship sinkings, and his service...
Topic: Rivetz George -- Interviews. Interviews -- Massachusetts -- Newton. Oral history. World War...
84
84
Apr 20, 2017
04/17
Apr 20, 2017
texts
eye 84
favorite 0
comment 0
Maria Puzzanghero immigrated to the United States in 1947 from her home near Cassino, Italy. She was 20 years old and left to escape the destruction caused by bombings in World War II. As the daughter of an American citizen, she traveled on a U.S. passport and was granted citizenship through naturalization. She moved with her husband and four children to Newton, Massachusetts in November 1963. Puzzanghero recounts working as a seamstress in a Boston dress factory, learning English, and...
Topics: Puzzanghero Maria -- Interviews, Interviews -- Massachusetts -- Newton, Oral history, Women...
57
57
Mar 2, 2017
03/17
Mar 2, 2017
texts
eye 57
favorite 0
comment 0
Peter DiFoggio, a longtime Newton resident, served in the 9th U.S. Air Force in World War II. He enlisted in 1942 and went to Fort Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts before completing basic training in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was then assigned to Bedford Air Base and Richmond, Virginia, before he was deployed overseas. DiFoggio traveled from Brooklyn to Liverpool on the SS Monterey with 2,800 people (far exceeding the ship's peacetime capacity). He boarded a train to Glasgow, where he was...
Topics: DiFoggio Peter -- Interviews, United States, Air Force, Interviews -- Massachusetts -- Newton, Oral...
57
57
Feb 17, 2017
02/17
Feb 17, 2017
texts
eye 57
favorite 0
comment 0
Samuel Starobin was born in Russia before moving to the United States to join family in Minnesota during the Great Depression. He was studying at the University of Chicago when World War II reached the US with the attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in the Army, and in April 1943, he began basic training at Camp Wallace, in Texas. While there he interviewed to go to the United States Military Academy (West Point). Starobin was sent to Amherst College to prepare, then began classes at West...
Topics: Starobin Sam -- Interviews., United States. Army., Interviews -- Massachusetts -- Newton., Oral...
531 pages ; 21 cm
Topics: Andrae, A, Blind -- Fiction, Orphans -- Fiction, World War, 1939-1945 -- Youth -- France --...
31 pages : 24 cm
Topics: Indian code talkers -- Juvenile literature, World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Indian --...
1 online resource (1 video file (10 min., 46 sec.)) : sound, color Notes: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Topics: Weinberg Izhak, 1938-, Belzec (Concentration camp), Concentration camps -- Poland, Jewish children...
1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations
Topics: Bernard Konrad Świerczyński 1922-2002, Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Warsaw...
24 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. ©2017 Series: Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture
Topics: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Buildings, World War 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons,...
Edición príncipe, diciembre de 2017. 198 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Topics: Campo Samuel del 1882-, Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust, World War 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue,...
1 online resource (1 streaming video file, 57 min.) : sound, color Fulle Scale Productions ©2017
Topics: Jewish soldiers -- United States -- Interviews, Jews -- United States -- Biography, World War...
1 online resource (1 streaming video file, 46 min.) : sound, color ©2017
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Sendlerowa Irena 1910-2008, Getter Matylda 1870-1968, Rada Pomocy Żydom "Żegota",...
76
76
2017
2017
2017
by
Arakawa, Jeanette, author
texts
eye 76
favorite 4
comment 0
247 pages ; 21 cm
Topics: Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945), World War (1939-1945),...
Source: removedNEL
75
75
2017
2017
2017
by
Furuya, Suikei, 1889-1977, author
texts
eye 75
favorite 4
comment 0
xliii, 368 pages ; 23 cm
Topics: Furuya, Suikei, 1889-1977, Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States :...
Source: removedNEL
1 online resource (1 video file, 8 min., 8 sec.) : sound, color
Topics: Gottlieb Milton -- Interviews, Soldiers -- United States -- Biography, World War 1939-1945 --...
1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations
Topics: World War 1939-1945 -- Ukraine Western -- Fiction, Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945) -- Ukraine -- Lʹviv
63 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm Lulu
Topics: Valentin Wilma, Coulter Rena, Sevcik Lucy, World War 1939-1945 -- Slovakia -- Kalište, Holocaust...
531 pages ; 21 cm
Topics: Andrae, A, Blind -- Fiction, Orphans -- Fiction, World War, 1939-1945 -- Youth -- France --...
32
32
2017
2017
2017
by
Shimotakahara, Leslie, author
texts
eye 32
favorite 1
comment 0
321 pages ; 22 cm
Topics: Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945), World War (1939-1945),...
Source: removedNEL
310 pages ; 24 cm
Topics: Boyle, Billy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction, Murder --...
ix, 284 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm ©2017 ISBN: 9781925272659 1925272656
Topics: Heber Bella 1923-, Heber Chaim 1922-1999, Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Biography, Holocaust Jewish...
32 pages ; 28 cm. Ina Levine annual lecture.
Topics: Police -- Poland, World War 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists -- Poland, Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)...
43
43
2017
2017
2017
by
Ivey, Linda L., author
texts
eye 43
favorite 5
comment 0
xi, 277 pages : 25 cm
Topics: United States. War Relocation Authority, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer...
Source: removedNEL
150
150
2017
2017
2017
by
Burke-Kooistra, Anneke, Hartwig, Tyler, Smith, Dontavias, Rembiesa, David, Mott Community College
movies
eye 150
favorite 0
comment 0
1 online resource (11 min., 33 sec.) : sound, color
Topics: Burke-Kooistra Anneke--Interviews, Kooistra Wopke 1907-1984, Kooistra Heiltje 1915-2000, Righteous...
xii, 157 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm ©2017 ISBN: 188232613X 9781882326136
Topics: Mandel Emanuel 1936 -- Family, Kasztner Rezső Rudolf 1906-1957, United States Holocaust Memorial...
16
16
2017
2017
2017
by
MCCAFFREY, JAMES M
texts
eye 16
favorite 3
comment 0
1 volume : 23 cm
Topics: United States. Army. Infantry Battalion, 100th, United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd,...
Source: removedNEL
53
53
2017
2017
2017
by
Johns, Barbara, 1942- author
texts
eye 53
favorite 6
comment 0
xi, 334 pages : 26 cm
Topics: Fujii, Takuichi, 1891-1964, Fujii, Takuichi, 1891-1964 -- Criticism and interpretation, Puyallup...
Source: removedNEL
64
64
2017
2017
2017
by
Bercuson, David J.; Herwig, Holger H.
texts
eye 64
favorite 2
comment 0
Coleccion Caribiana , Biblioteca Nacional Aruba Long Night of the Tankers Hitler’s War against Caribbean Oil David J. Bercuson and Holger H. Herwig © 2014 David J. Bercuson and Holger H. Herwig This book is available as an ebook which is licensed under a Creative Commons license. The publisher should be contacted for any commercial use which falls outside the terms of that license. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction "Rum and Coca-Cola”: The Yankees Are...
Topics: books, Caribbean, history, Aruba, U-156, u-boat attack, tankers, LAGO Oil and Transport Company,...
1 online resource (1 streamimg video file, 64 min.) : sound, color ©2017 Other Authors/Editors: Ishii, Ryan. Street Cinema. Hawaii Association of Independent Schools. Variant Title: Story of survival : introducing Betty Benima Rothman Copyright Street Cinema, LLC.
Topics: Rothman Betty 1922-2016, Gesell family, Holocaust survivors -- New Jersey -- Cherry Hill --...
"Majesty, we are at war!": Hitler invades Norway -- "A bold and noble woman": Holland falls but its queen escapes -- "A complete and utter shambles": The collapse of Belgium and France -- "We shall conquer together, or we shall die together": The European exodus to Britain -- "Something called heavy water": The resuce mission that changed the course of the war -- "They are better than any of us": Polish pilots triumph in the battle of...
Topics: Great Britain, World War (1939-1945), World War, 1939-1945 -- Governments in exile, World War,...
1 online resource (1 video file (10 min., 58 sec.)) : sound, color Also in English under title: Polish tune : film https://youtu.be/UGImfPKrlyI Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Topics: Weinberg Izhak 1938-, Belzec (Concentration camp), Concentration camps -- Poland, Jewish children...
11 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm ©2017
Topics: Dougherty Dan P, Dachau (Concentration camp), United States Army Infantry Regiment 157th Company C,...
Jerry Yeatts was born and raised in the town of Leasburg in Caswell County, N.C. Jerry's father was a World War II veteran who had spent 18 months as a prisoner-of-war held by the Germans in Europe. After transferring schools, Jerry Yeats graduated from Bartlett Yancey High School in 1966. Yeatts played baseball with the American Legion before his military service. After receiving his draft notice for the Vietnam War in 1966 during his senior year in high school, he chose to enlist in the...
Topics: American Legion, B-52 bomber, Military history, Oral histories, Oral history, Personal narratives,...
36
36
Oct 6, 2016
10/16
Oct 6, 2016
texts
eye 36
favorite 0
comment 0
Elyse Katz is the widow of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant Robert Sandor Katz. Katz enlisted in 1942, and served as a gunner on B-24 and B-27 bombers in the 64th Bombardment Squadron, 43rd Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force. He served in the Pacific: in Japan, China, Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Luzon, and the Ryukyu Islands. He received the Asiatic Pacific Theatre Campaign Ribbon, Philippine Liberation Ribbon with Bronze Service Star, American Theatre Campaign Ribbon, Victory...
Topics: Katz Elyse -- Interviews, Katz Robert, United States Army, Interviews -- Massachusetts -- Newton,...
77
77
Sep 7, 2016
09/16
Sep 7, 2016
texts
eye 77
favorite 1
comment 0
Mario DiCarlo, a lifelong Newton resident, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in June, 1943. He was sent to Parris Island, then on to Camp Lejeune to be classified. Due to his civilian experience repairing magnetron equipment for Raytheon, he was assigned to receive further training in the technology. He was promoted to Corporal in August, 1943 and traveled from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor on the U.S.S. Copahee on his way to Guadalcanal, where he served as a radar technician beginning in July,...
Topics: Di Carlo Mario -- Interviews, United States Marine Corps, Interviews -- Massachusetts -- Newton,...
42
42
Jul 7, 2016
07/16
Jul 7, 2016
texts
eye 42
favorite 0
comment 0
Arthur Talis enlisted in the Navy in August, 1945, interrupting his evening college business studies to follow in his older brother's footsteps. He completed boot camp at Naval Station Great Lakes and was then assigned to the Personnel Separation Center in St. Louis, Missouri. He joined the USS Puget Sound (CVE-113), a Commencement Bay-class escort carrier stationed in Alameda, California on March 19, 1946 and set sail for the Philippines the following day. Talis served as a dispersing clerk on...
Topics: Talis Arthur -- Interviews., United States. Navy., Interviews -- Massachusetts -- Newton., Oral...
Oral history interview with Robert W. Gilbert of Advance, N.C. (originally Winston-Salem, N.C.), a World War II veteran who served in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Van Valkenburgh (DD-656) in the Pacific Theater. He graduated from John W. Hanes High School.
Topics: Oral histories, Oral history, Military history, Personal narratives, Regimental histories, Retired...
120
120
Jun 7, 2016
06/16
Jun 7, 2016
texts
eye 120
favorite 0
comment 0
Werner Gumpertz was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States. He began his service in the U.S. Army after being drafted in 1943. He trained at the Engineering Replacement Training Center at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and continued his service in Pennsylvania and Camp Ritchie, Maryland, for intelligence training. He was deployed to England, and subsequently moved from the suburbs of Paris to Germany, where he joined the 7th Army as a translator, interrogating German prisoners. He later...
Topics: Gumpertz Werner -- Interviews., United States. Army., Interviews -- Massachusetts -- Newton., Oral...
49
49
Jun 1, 2016
06/16
Jun 1, 2016
texts
eye 49
favorite 0
comment 0
Paul Lipsitt enlisted with the Navy on September 14, 1944. After attending boot camp and receiving education in electronics, Lipsitt served as an aviation electronics technician in Olethe, Kansas. Lipsitt ended his service on July 5, 1946. After arriving home in Massachusetts, he attended Brown University through their veterans' school. He discusses his extensive education before, during, and after the war; his travels throughout the United States and around the world; and his feelings on war...
Topics: Lipsitt Paul -- Interviews., United States. Navy., Interviews -- Massachusetts -- Newton., Oral...
63
63
May 3, 2016
05/16
May 3, 2016
texts
eye 63
favorite 0
comment 0
Manny Brown was drafted into the U.S. Army in October, 1942. He completed basic training at Camp Barkeley in Abilene, Texas with the 90th Infantry Division. He took part in maneuvers in Louisiana and the Mojave Desert, California, before assignment to Fort Dix, New Jersey, and deployment to Europe. Brown was stationed in Cardiff, Wales and participated in the Normandy invasion landing in Cherbourg, France on D-Day. An injury sustained in October 1945 ended his active duty. Brown was awarded...
Topics: Brown, Manny, Brown -- Interviews, United States. Army, Oral history, Interviews -- Massachusetts...
Oral history interview with H.T. Conner of Raleigh, N.C. (originally Richmond, Virginia), a World War II veteran who served in the U.S. Army Air Force as a tail gunner with the 14th Air Force in China from 1943 to 1946.
Topics: Oral histories, Oral history, Military helicopters, Military history, Personal narratives,...
37
37
Mar 1, 2016
03/16
Mar 1, 2016
texts
eye 37
favorite 0
comment 0
Richard Silverman, a life-long Newton resident, enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942 while a student at Brown University. He was stationed in England, France and Germany. He participated in the allied invasion of Europe, landing in Normandy on D+8 (June 14, 1944). He served as a cryptographer with a mobile unit encoding messages for the 9th Air Force and was awarded five battle [service] stars. At the end of the war, he attended the Sorbonne in Paris through the assistance of the Army's...
Topics: Silverman Richard -- Interviews, United States, Army Air Forces, Interviews -- Massachusetts --...
Oral history interview with Robert L. McMillan Jr. of Raleigh, N.C., a veteran of World War II and the Korean War in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Topics: Oral histories, Oral history, Military history, Personal narratives, Regimental histories, Retired...
7
7.0
2016
2016
2016
by
Le Bail, Karine, (1970- ...)
texts
eye 7
favorite 0
comment 0
1 v. (439 p.) : 23 cm
Topics: Morrisson, Matthew, World War, 1939-1945 -- Music and the war, World War, 1939-1945 -- Social...
4
4.0
2016
2016
2016
by
Lowe, Susan, author
texts
eye 4
favorite 0
comment 0
xxiv, 109 pages : 22 cm
Topics: Trollmann, Josefa, 1940- -- Fiction, World War, 1939-1945 -- Yugoslavia -- Fiction, Internment...
6
6.0
2016
2016
2016
by
Braganza, Alfredo de, author
texts
eye 6
favorite 0
comment 0
341 pages ; 23 cm
Topics: Khan, Noor Inayat, 1914-1944 -- Fiction, Khan, Noor Inayat, 1914-1944 -- Novela, Khan, Noor Inayat,...
6
6.0
2016
2016
2016
by
Carey, Helen (Fiction writer), author
texts
eye 6
favorite 0
comment 0
455 pages ; 20 cm
Topics: World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- London -- Fiction, Women -- England -- History -- 20th century...
