| Title: |
Virginia Janowiecki, Rosemarie Shaffer and Eleanor Otte
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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| Collection: |
Personal Oral History
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| Description: |
Sitting her the sunlight parlor, I interview my aging Grandmother. Her reluctance to answer questions is great, but she obediently sits and stares at the tape recorder. Due to a severe cold, her voice fades in and out and she has fits of coughing that are remedied by a sip of warm ginger ale. Daughter of Polish immigrants and mother of five, she is worn and wise. With a heavy Polish accent, she describes her life in the 1940's.
Rosemarie Shaffer is the sister of Virginia Janowiecki. Her friend for over sixty years, Eleanor Otte, was visiting at the time of the interview and at first did not want to participate, but gave in to Rosemarie's begging. Both women are over seventy years old, but have an adolescent vigor in their movements and voices. Excitedly, they move to the handsome den to get comfortable for the interview. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is playing in the kitchen and Maggie, Rosemarie's Westie, curiously prances about the tape recorder.
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| URL: |
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~amnornes/Amanda.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1999 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Janowiecki, Virginia, 1925(?)-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1925
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Age at speaking: |
74
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| Document date: |
1999
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| Interviewer: |
Dillen, Amanda
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| Historical events discussed: |
World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Michigan; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Biography; Interviews; Local history; Michigan; Michigan--History; North America; Oral history; United States; United States--History; World War II, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0029273-32398
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