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Oral History Interview with Hanna K Ulatowska, February 16, 1990

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Interview with Hanna L Ulatowska, a Polish linguist and Holocaust survivor from Warsaw. Ulatowska discusses the invasion of Poland, witnessing bombings and atrocities, life in Warsaw after the invasion, the life of Jews, the Warsaw Uprising, being forced out of the city by German forces to Auschwitz-Birkenau, survival there, Josef Mengele, her family, escaping from Birkenau, Russian liberation, and reflections on her experiences.
Date: February 16, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith G. & Ulatowska, Hanna K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Kenneth V. Adams, February 16, 1976 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Kenneth V. Adams, February 16, 1976

Interview with Navy veteran Kenneth V. Adams. The interview includes Adams' personal experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Henley during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: February 16, 1976
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Adams, Kenneth V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Weldon O. Western, February 16, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Weldon O. Western, February 16, 1987

Interview with Weldon Western, an Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Western discusses the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi, Thailand (1944), Saigon, French Indo-China (1945), American air raids, and his liberation.
Date: February 16, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Western, Weldon O., 1914-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lorenzo Echanis, February 16, 1984 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Lorenzo Echanis, February 16, 1984

Interview with Lorenzo Echanis discussing his experiences growing up in Basque Country with Basque parents, attending church and learning catechism, immigration to the United States, working as a shepherd, marriage, and returning to visit his hometown years later.
Date: February 16, 1984
Creator: Echeverria, Jeri & Echanis, Lorenzo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Johnny Yturri, February 16, 1984 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Johnny Yturri, February 16, 1984

Interview with Johnny Yturri discussing his experiences growing up with Basque parents, Basque customs, learning English, early jobs, and sheep ranching in Orange County, California.
Date: February 16, 1984
Creator: Echeverria, Jeri & Yturri, Johnny
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ceclia Bermejo Hernandez, February 16, 2013

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Interview with Cecelia Hernandez, a Mexican-American resident of Fort Worth, Texas. Hernandez discusses her schooling, her family, thoughts on college and first generation students, becoming and being a parent, working at Fort Worth ISD, and encountering struggles as a Hispanic person and parent. In appendix is her family tree.
Date: February 16, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Bermejo-Hernandez, Cecelia
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Josephine Bermejo, February 16, 2013

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Interview with Josephine Bermejo, first generation of Bermejo women, for the Mexican American Women's Educational Experience Oral History Project. The interview includes Bermejo's recollections of schooling in Minnesota and Iowa, learning in English schools, leaving school for family obligations, and getting a GED in Fort Worth, Texas. Bermejo also talks about children's education and her thoughts on the future of Mexican American education. It includes an appendix with the Bermejo family tree.
Date: February 16, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Bermejo, Josephine
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Nick Sanchez, February 16, 1999

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Interview with Nick Sanchez, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Laredo, Texas. Sanchez discusses working in radio when the war began, becoming a radio technician in the Army Air Force, deployment to India and operations there, going missing in China after surviving a plane crash, and the end of the war. In appendix are an autobiographical sketch of Sanchez's service, a copy of a diary recording his experience "bailing-out," and his official military statement of the event.
Date: February 16, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Sanchez, Nick
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Frederick J. Holland, Jr., February 16, 1999

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Transcript of an interview with Frederick J. Holland, Jr., an Army Air Forces veteran, concerning his experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Holland discusses his early employment with REA Express; basic training, Fort Miles Standish, Massachusetts, 1942; his transfer to the Air Force and assignment to Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, 1942; Officer Candidate School, Miami, Florida, 1943; assignment to India; assignment to Dum Dum Airport, Calcutta, 1943; his role in supervising and shipping cargo over "The Hump" (Himalaya Mountains) to China; assignment to Baruipur Airport, Calcutta; his role in the development and operation of the first mobile conveyor unit to load and unload cargo; awarding of the Bronze Star for his invention. Appendix includes one leaf that gives history of the mobile conveyor and one leaf that shows four images of the mobile conveyor.
Date: February 16, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Holland, Frederick J., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with G. Marguerite Anderson, February 16, 1992

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Interview with G. Marguerite Anderson, a librarian, concerning her experiences as a student in the Library School at the Texas State College for Women in Denton, Texas and as a librarian. Anderson discusses her early exposure to books and libraries; her enrollment at the Texas State College for Women, 1940; comments about her college teachers and library science courses; her employment as a student at the college library; her college social life; her employment as librarian at Abilene Christian College; graduate school at University of Chicago, 1950-51; her entry into photographic sales business; her employment with Abilene Christian College, Dallas Center; and her activities in professional organizations.
Date: February 16, 1992
Creator: Dickey, Richard & Anderson, G. Marguerite
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Rudy Bowling, February 16, 2014

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Audio log for a recording of an interview with Rudy Bowling, former customer service agent for Braniff International Airways, concerning his experiences in the airline industry and working for Braniff. This interview is part of the Flying Voices oral history project.
Date: February 16, 2014
Creator: Schnur, Abra & Bowling, Rudy
System: The UNT Digital Library