| Title |
Sophia Howard, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, May 2, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 452 |
| Alternative Title |
Sophia Howard, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Howard, Sophia, 1924-2008 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-05-02 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Netherlands |
| Subject |
Howard, Sophia, 1924-2008--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Dutch American; World War, 1939-1945--Netherlands; World War, 1939-1945--Women--Biography |
| Description |
Transcript (46 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Sophia Howard on May 2, 2002. This is from tape number 452 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Howard (b. 1924) talks about her birth and childhood in Utrecht, Holland. She recalls hearing about the German bombing of Rotterdam and the surrender, which took place five days later. During the war she worked for a company that cleaned the homes of German officers. Topics covered include food shortages, German roundups of men and resistance workers, the black market, curfew, the liberation of Holland and postwar events, and converting to the LDS Church in the 1950s. 46 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
46 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6sb64zk |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--Dutch American; World War (1939-1945); Women in war |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020782 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sb64zk |
| Title |
Page 24 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020758 |
| OCR Text |
Show 0 I H W om lli sh w nt-wh t my dad did t durin th t got-oh where did he get th cigarettes? h y had cigar tt s som time th t th h ul tr for food from the farmers). No that was more with th German . th n ·nth n didn't have cigarettes anymore, either. And my dad I don t know how he got th m h w uld lot of times he had cigarettes and it was kind of like-not a black market-he would g t cigarettes for the Germans and we would get food. BEC: Trading? SOP: Kind of like-a lot of black market going on really. And my dad used to go to the 0 farms a lot. I don't know what he traded or what he did, but he always came home with some food. Reenie, one time, went on her bike. Her bike had wooden wheels-can you imagine that?-because we did not have tires, we didn't have any rubber. She went all the way on her bike to go up to Leeuwarden -and Utrecht is kind of in the middle of Holland-and Leeuwarden is a city that's kind of way up in Holland. I think Allie lived there then, you know, my oldest sister. Well, she can tell you a lot about that because she got sick (on the way) and she was laying on the side of the road and some people stopped. BEC: What was she going up there for? She was going to see your sister? SOP: No, well, she was trying to get some food, too. Yeah, she was going to see my sister and see if she could get some food. When [unclear] , Holland didn't have anything. It was really, really bad on the end. But she can tell you more about that. JEA: What about your bike ride? The bike ride in the rain? SOP: Oh, yeah, that happened to me. It was terrible. Well, I worked-okay, you have Salt Lake and Murray. In Holland it was like that with Utrecht and Veldhoven. A lot of the German officers took those were beautiful homes in Veldhoven. They always took those beautiful homes 23 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sb64zk/1020758 |
