Oral History Interview with Andrew Joseph Brenner, Sr., November 3, 2009

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Interview with Joseph Andrew Brenner Sr., Hungarian-American immigrant to Weatherford, Texas, as part of the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Brenner's personal experiences of childhood and education in Budapest, Hungary, having a career as a tool and die machinist, the involvement with his brothers in anti-Soviet and anti-Communist resistance movements, being captured by Hungarian political police and subsequent torture, his sentence in a Soviet work camp, escaping across the Austrian border, and coping with memories of torture. Additionally, Brenner discusses his father's service in the German Luftwaffe, memories of the Soviet Army entering Budapest in 1945, immigrating to the U.S., settling in Weatherford, his efforts to maintain connections with family in Hungary, and the process of earning his citizenship. The interview includes an appendix with photographs.
Date: November 3, 2009
Creator: Liles, Debbie & Brenner, Joseph Andrew, Sr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Eleonore Greenfield, November 2, 2009

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Interview with Eleonore Greenfield, Germany-born immigrant to Weatherford, Texas, as part of the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Greenfield's personal experiences of childhood and education in Germany, escaping to Berlin from the Soviet army, and again to Bavaria, and marriage to an America GI. Greenfield also discusses her family's experiences with occupying U.S. Army forces, the decision to settle in Weatherford, the struggle to pass on German language and culture to her children and grandchildren, and her family history. The interview includes an appendix with photographs.
Date: November 2, 2009
Creator: Liles, Debbie & Greenfield, Eleonore
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grass Burr (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, November 19, 2004 (open access)

Grass Burr (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, November 19, 2004

Student newspaper of Weatherford High School in Weatherford, Texas that includes school news and information along with advertising.
Date: November 19, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Weatherford Democrat (Weatherford, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 12, 2003 (open access)

The Weatherford Democrat (Weatherford, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Daily newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 12, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History