Archive for March, 2008
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Yesterday I featured the memories of school children in Germany as reported in the book, Kaleidoscope:German School Girls During World War II, Memories and Emotions by Marianne Herdani-Lombard. Today I thought I would share some memories of high school girls as told in my book, We Knew We Were at ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Recently, friends brought me a newspaper from Sarasota, Florida, which contained information on a recently published book, Kaleidoscope: German School Girls During World War II, Memories and Emotions, by Marianne Herdani-Lombard.
While attending a reunion of her 1949 graduating class at Ceiliens-shule in Dussesldorf-Oberkassel, the author interviewed twelve of the surviving ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
I recently received a comment suggesting that life in the military is much improved from what it was in World War II.
My writer, Ami, says that "we are able to have a life like many non-military families. On a normal day, dad (or mom) goe .s to work in the ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
I recently received a paper from Lisa, telling about her experiences in the Cadet Nurse Corps. After graduating from Garden City High School in New York City at the height of World War II, she enrolled in St. Luke's Hospital with plans to become a nurse. The Cadet Nurse Corps was the choice for ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
I wrote about the internment of Japanese-Americans, and then I heard about the internment of German-Americans and wrote about that. And now, thanks to one of my readers, I have information on Italian-Americans who were interned.
Jackie wrote, “It wasn’t only the Japanese and Germans who were evacuated from their homes. ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Although my blog is called www.worldwarIIwoman.com, occasionally I may veer from the woman part or possibly even the World War II part. Today is such a day.
One of my neighbors is Helen, one of the women in my book We Knew We Were at War: Women Remember World War II. ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
"Fall in," "Fall out," "To the right," "To the left," "To the rear march!" I was ready to throw in the towel. My feet hurt and my back ached. The days were horrible, the nights worse. My left arm felt paralyzed from a million injections and my right arm moved ...
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