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Title: Al Partridge and Bob Tidwell - Oral History.
Creator: Partridge, Al, Davis, John, WGCU Public Media, Tidwell, Bob
Abstract / Description: Al Partridge discusses his experience of being wounded in action. Bob Tidwell recounts witnessing multiple deaths that have remained in his memory.
Date Issued: c. 2015
Identifier: fgcu_wwoh_0015
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Anita Vandegrift - Oral History.
Creator: Vandegrift, Anita, Weinbaum, Jennifer
Abstract / Description: Jennifer Weinbaum interviews Anita Vandegrift on her experience as a young woman during World War II.
Identifier: fgcu_wwoh_0001
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Bessie Washington Oral History.
Creator: Washington, Bessie, Hill, Vivian
Abstract / Description: Bessie Washington speaks with Vivian Hill about her family and residing in various Florida cities before settling in Fort Myers in the 1940s. Washington also discusses local business and religious leaders, as well as the efforts to raise funds for Jones Walker Hospital, the first major hospital to treat Black patients.
Identifier: fgcu_bhs_0020
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Beth Stone - Oral History.
Creator: Stone, Beth, Smith, Collin
Abstract / Description: Beth Stone discusses growing up in Texas during World War II.
Identifier: fgcu_wwoh_0006
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Carol Tyler Baker - Oral History.
Creator: Baker, Carol Tyler, Baker, Susana
Abstract / Description: Carol Tyler Baker speaks about watching people celebrate the end of World War II and anecdotes from family members.
Identifier: fgcu_wwoh_0002
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Cesare Frustaci - Oral History.
Creator: Frustaci, Cesare, Glenn, Julie
Abstract / Description: Retired engineer, Cesare Frustaci, was just eight years old when his family was forced out of their home in Budapest, Hungary -- and forced into an extremely crowded, so-called Yellow Star House because his mother was Jewish. Shortly after that happened, Frustaci’s mom sent him out to live on the streets because he had been baptized as a Catholic, which meant he didn’t have to live in the house with her and the rest of the Jews. As the war progressed, Frustaci lost track of his mother, and...
Show moreRetired engineer, Cesare Frustaci, was just eight years old when his family was forced out of their home in Budapest, Hungary -- and forced into an extremely crowded, so-called Yellow Star House because his mother was Jewish. Shortly after that happened, Frustaci’s mom sent him out to live on the streets because he had been baptized as a Catholic, which meant he didn’t have to live in the house with her and the rest of the Jews. As the war progressed, Frustaci lost track of his mother, and his father who was living in Naples, Italy at the time. On today’s show, we’re going to hear his story of what happened next, and the hardships he and countless others faced during the war, and the atrocities that were occurring all around them.
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Date Issued: 2018-10-29
Identifier: fgcu_wwoh_0011
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Constance Bennett Jennings Oral History.
Creator: Jennings, Constance Bennett, Denson-Rogers, Nina
Abstract / Description: Constance Jennings speaks to Nina Denson-Rogers about being raised in Fort Myers, Florida, her family, and local businesses. Jennings also reads from the biography she compiled on the life of area civil rights and religious leader Evelyn Sams Canady.
Identifier: fgcu_bhs_0013
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Donna Ellett - Oral History.
Creator: Ellett, Donna, Pulido, Karla
Abstract / Description: Donna Ellett discusses growing up in Michigan, local rations, and memories of the day Japan surrendered to the U.S.
Identifier: fgcu_wwoh_0003
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Drum Stories.
Creator: Grant, Genelle G., Rauen, Holly, Brown, Kinsey
Abstract / Description: Genelle G. Grant and Holly Rauen discuss Ellen Peterson’s love of ceremonial drumming and the importance of drum circles to the Happehatchee culture. Genelle G. Grant is the president of the Happehatchee Center Board of directors. Holly Rauen is an archivist for the Ellen Peterson Legacy Project and manages Happehatchee social media. Both women were personal friends of Ellen Peterson, the founder of the Happehatchee Center. Peterson was a Southwest Florida community leader whose activism...
Show moreGenelle G. Grant and Holly Rauen discuss Ellen Peterson’s love of ceremonial drumming and the importance of drum circles to the Happehatchee culture. Genelle G. Grant is the president of the Happehatchee Center Board of directors. Holly Rauen is an archivist for the Ellen Peterson Legacy Project and manages Happehatchee social media. Both women were personal friends of Ellen Peterson, the founder of the Happehatchee Center. Peterson was a Southwest Florida community leader whose activism focused on women’s rights and environmental conservation.
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Identifier: fgcu_eplc_0001
Note: Video and corresponding transcript available
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Elder Luke Black Oral History.
Creator: Black, Luke, Hill, Vivian
Abstract / Description: Elder Luke Black talks with Vivian Hill about working on a tobacco farm in Quincy, Florida, in his youth before moving to Fort Myers at the age of nineteen in the 1940s. Elder Luke Black also discusses his path to becoming a preacher.
Identifier: fgcu_bhs_0004
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Elma Blutcher and Laura Pasley Oral History.
Creator: Blutcher, Elma, Pasley, Laura, Denson-Rogers, Nina
Abstract / Description: Elma Blutcher and Laura Pasley talk with Nina Denson-Rogers about moving from Georgia to Fort Myers, Florida, as well as recalls many of the instructors at Dunbar High School during their time there.
Identifier: fgcu_bhs_0005
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: End of War Stories - Oral History.
Creator: Speaker 1, Speaker 2, Speaker 3, Speaker 4, Speaker 5, Speaker 6, Speaker 7, Speaker 8
Abstract / Description: Eight interviewees recount the moment they first heard that World War II had ended, including their reactions and where they were, and what it meant for them and their families.
Identifier: fgcu_wwoh_0021
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Eva Kor - Oral History.
Creator: Kor, Eva Mozes, Davis, John
Abstract / Description: At the age of 10, Kor was sent to the Nazi’s Auschwitz concentration camp where her parents and two older sisters were killed. Eva and her twin sister Miriam became part of a group of about 3,000 children who were abused in horrific genetic experiments under the direction of Dr. Josef Mengele. They were among the roughly 200 children found alive when the Soviet Army liberated the camp in 1945, most of whom had also been Mengele twins. Nearly four decades later, Eva Kor founded CANDLES ...
Show moreAt the age of 10, Kor was sent to the Nazi’s Auschwitz concentration camp where her parents and two older sisters were killed. Eva and her twin sister Miriam became part of a group of about 3,000 children who were abused in horrific genetic experiments under the direction of Dr. Josef Mengele. They were among the roughly 200 children found alive when the Soviet Army liberated the camp in 1945, most of whom had also been Mengele twins. Nearly four decades later, Eva Kor founded CANDLES (Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors) and with Miriam’s help, reconnected 122 other Mengele twin survivors around the world. In 1995, Kor founded the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute, Indiana. That year she also wrote and published her account of survival in the book, “Echoes from Auschwitz: Dr. Mengele's Twins: The Story of Eva & Miriam Mozes.”
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Date Issued: 2015-11-18
Identifier: fgcu_wwoh_0008
Format: Audio file

Title: Grace Chicken - Oral History.
Creator: Chicken, Grace
Abstract / Description: Grace Chicken wanted to see the world. As a young woman, her ambition was to be a nurse in the war, so she joined the Red Cross and was stationed in Joplin, Missouri. When she heard that the Air Force was looking for nurses, she enlisted to train as an Army Air Force Specialized Flight Nurse, and was sent to Bowman Field Kentucky. Her first posting was to Newfoundland, Canada, and from there she went on to be stationed in the Azores, a country that was neutral during WWII. Injured US military...
Show moreGrace Chicken wanted to see the world. As a young woman, her ambition was to be a nurse in the war, so she joined the Red Cross and was stationed in Joplin, Missouri. When she heard that the Air Force was looking for nurses, she enlisted to train as an Army Air Force Specialized Flight Nurse, and was sent to Bowman Field Kentucky. Her first posting was to Newfoundland, Canada, and from there she went on to be stationed in the Azores, a country that was neutral during WWII. Injured US military personnel were flown to the Azores from other arenas, such as Europe, Asia and Africa. From the Azores, the Aerovac teams would fly the patients back to the United States for treatment. After VE Day, Chicken was sent to Hawaii and from there they flew to all the small Pacific Islands picking up wounded Americans along the way. She was on the second US plane to arrive in Japan after the surrender. After the war, Chicken went back to school on the GI Bill and then enlisted to serve in Korea.
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Identifier: fgcu_wwoh_0007
Format: Audio file

Title: Harry Beeman - Oral History.
Creator: Beeman, Harry
Abstract / Description: Harry Beeman was 19 years old when he signed up as an Apprentice Seaman in the US Navy the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Prior to that date Harry’s father had refused to allow his son to enlist, despite his fervent desire to do so. Harry served four years on the USS Ellet, a small destroyer that survived ten major battles during the Pacific War, including the Battle of Midway in which the Ellet was one of the lead ships. During the course of the war Harry was promoted to 3rd...
Show moreHarry Beeman was 19 years old when he signed up as an Apprentice Seaman in the US Navy the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Prior to that date Harry’s father had refused to allow his son to enlist, despite his fervent desire to do so. Harry served four years on the USS Ellet, a small destroyer that survived ten major battles during the Pacific War, including the Battle of Midway in which the Ellet was one of the lead ships. During the course of the war Harry was promoted to 3rd Gunner, 2nd Gunner’s Mate then Gunner’s Mate First Class.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: fgcu_wwoh_0010
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Helen Stebbins Oral History.
Creator: Stebbins, Helen, 1915-2009, Benjamin, Daisy Sapp-Upshaw
Abstract / Description: Helen Stebbin speaks with Daisy Sapp-Upshaw Benjamin about her childhood in Fort Myers, Florida, attending Williams Academy and then Dunbar High School. Stebbin details how the local community had to raise funds in order to pay teachers to provide nine month schooling for students, as the racially segregated school systems did not provide funding for instructors for Black schools. Stebbins later went on to become a school teacher herself.
Identifier: fgcu_bhs_0019
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Irene Cosby and Annie Green - Oral History.
Creator: Cosby, Irene, Green, Annie
Abstract / Description: Two women, both natives of Fort Myers, Florida, recount their experiences as children who lived through World War II, touching especially on how it affected their families and their town.
Identifier: fgcu_wwoh_0020
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Jacob Rolfe Johnson Oral HIstory: Part 1.
Creator: Johnson, Jacob Rolfe, Matthews, Janet Snyder, Denson-Rogers, Nina
Abstract / Description: Jacob Rolfe Johnson speaks with Jan Matthews and Nina Denson-Rogers about his arrival to Fort Myers in 1923, where he attended Williams Academy and Dunbar High School before earning a business degree and returning to as a teacher himself at Dunbar Elementary and High School before retiring in 1983.
Identifier: fgcu_bhs_0014
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Jacob Rolfe Johnson Oral HIstory: Part 2.
Creator: Johnson, Jacob Rolfe, Matthews, Janet Snyder, Denson-Rogers, Nina
Abstract / Description: Jacob Rolfe Johnson speaks with Jan Matthews and Nina Denson-Rogers about his family background and local history, including recounting an event in which two Black school boys, R.J. Johnson and Milton Wilson, were violently murdered on May 26, 1924, by a racist white mob.
Identifier: fgcu_bhs_0015
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Jacob Rolfe Johnson Oral HIstory: Part 3.
Creator: Johnson, Jacob Rolfe, Matthews, Janet Snyder
Abstract / Description: Jacob Rolfe Johnson speaks with Jan Matthews about his family farming and being unable to purchase the land they worked due to racial discrimination in Sanibel, Florida, segregated beaches, and the development of the Dunbar area.
Identifier: fgcu_bhs_0016
Format: Document (PDF)

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