| Title |
Ann Sharp, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, August 10, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 406 |
| Alternative Title |
Ann Sharp, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Sharp, Ann, 1932- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-08-10 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Netherlands; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Sharp, Ann, 1932- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Dutch; World War, 1939-1945--Netherlands; Dutch Americans--Utah--Biography |
| Description |
Transcript (44 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Ann Sharp on August 10, 2001. This is from tape number xxx in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Ann Sharp (b. 1932) talks about her childhood in Holland under German occupation. She lived in Rotterdam but was sent to Arnhem for a time. Sharp emigrated to the United States with her husband in 1953, settling in Salt Lake City to be near her sister, who had joined the LDS Church. 44 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
44 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/s64t8hmb |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Dutch Americans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026595 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64t8hmb |
| Title |
Page 34 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026583 |
| OCR Text |
Show ANN HARP 1 2 01 Highland Drive and she was really nice. And she said "Would you mind uld y u b offended if I corrected you if you said something wrong? And I said Pl a d . hat the only way I'm going to learn." She was really nice. And so by doing all that you picked up the language. BEC: Yeah. ANN: And then, of course, had to go to the university too; took some lessons there. And also once we became, wanted to become a citizen, after five years, you had to learn all that. BEC: Right. ANN: So that picked up the language too. So that helped. So, you know, I feel very strongly, when you come to another country and you want to make it your home, you need to learn the language 'cause it's much better for yourself. BEC: So how long did you clean houses? ANN: For about two years and then I wanted a baby so bad that I finally got, well I got pregnant while I was still-because that last lady on Highland Drive, she had a little cottage on the end of her driveway and then the big house where they lived. And I would go every day and clean the house, and my husband would kind of keep up the garden. And we lived in that cottage rent-free. BEC: Oh. I see. ANN: And that worked out really well. But it only had a living room and a kitchen and one bedroom. So when I became pregnant, we moved out. We moved to another place on Third A venue, which wasn' t a whole lot bigger, but it was a pretty nice 33 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64t8hmb/1026583 |
