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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Brand family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4934
Scope and content

Correspondence, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, diplomas, sketches, notebooks, and other papers of an Ithaca, New York family. Includes material of Ernestine Isabel Brand (Barnard College); John E. Brand, especially pertaining to his service in World War II; Charles Brand; Alice Brand; and paintings by Charles S. Isabel.

Dates: [ca.1912-1955]

Edward Northup Hay Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 5227
Abstract

Consists of personal and family documents; materials relating to organizations with which Hay was professionally involved; and reference files concerning employee rating and testing.

Dates: 1914-1958

Gerd Korman interviews

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3296
Scope and content

Tapes and transcripts of interviews with the following survivors of the Nazi Holocaust: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lenz, Sylvester Berki, Dr. and Mrs. J. Rothenberg, Zvi Yavetz. Gerd Korman conducted the interviews in 1967 and 1968.

Dates: 1967-1968.

Gifford Boies Doxsee letter : to Ada Zouche German

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065255311]
Identifier: 6311
Scope and content

Signed autograph letter to Ada Zouche German describing Doxsee's experiences in World War II, including his enlistment, training, participation in the Battle of the Bulge, his capture by the German Army, his time in prisoner of war camps, and his service in Dresden work camps, with particular reference to the fire bombing of that city, and his forced labor in Schlachthof Funf, or Slaughterhouse Five, in the company of the novelist Kurt Vonnegut.

Dates: 1981, Jan. 10

Graydon S. Brown correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065461646]
Identifier: 4912
Scope and content

World War II correspondence between Captain Graydon S. Brown and his sister Margaret S. Brown in Seneca Falls, New York.

Dates: 1943-1945

John Babcock papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064916137]
Identifier: 2015
Abstract

Letters from Babcock to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Babcock of Ithaca, New York, and other members of his family.

Dates: 1938-1946.

Sidney H. Schneider papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6319
Scope and content

Correspondence, photographs, negatives, medals, ephemera, and a yearbook relating to Schneider's participation in World War II, chiefly concerning the invasion of Italy. Also contains correspondence used in the making of a documentary on novelist Joseph Heller, a comrade. Photographs include B-25 Mitchell bombers in action, Mount Vesuvius.

Dates: [ca.1941-1946].

Stephen E. Mekeel papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065218111]
Identifier: 2479
Scope and content Letters from World War II servicemen in training centers, hospitals, and barracks in the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and the Pacific, containing descriptions of life in camp and areas in which the soldiers were based, but consisting mainly of notes expressing gratitude to Mekeel and the Folks Back Home Committee of Ovid for mail, gift packages, and copies of the OVID GAZETTE. Also, Christmas cards from the servicemen, issues of various military newspapers, and...
Dates: 1942-1946.

Stuart M. Brown, Jr. papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-21-2820
Scope and content

Class schedules, lecture notes, photocopies of readings, and other course material for Biology and Society courses including Professional Ethics, 1983-1986; Biomedical Ethics, 1981; and Environmental Ethics, 1981-1982.



Dates: 1943-1986.

Walter J. Pauk papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065107736]
Identifier: 27-2-2783
Scope and content

Correspondence, diplomas, transcripts, newsletters, and other papers of a professor in the School of Education; includes samples of the Army Basic Comprehension Test, and letters from Eleanor Roosevelt and Bernard Baruch.



Dates: 1949-1999.