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Zarf, Fred (1921-2013): Interview

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Identifier: O-Z19*

Scope and Contents

Zarf, Austrian immigrant, discusses growing up in Austria after WWI: family, housing, and schooling; emigration to Springfield, Illinois, Depression, coal mining and mine wars; WWII: enlistment, training, and service and combat in the North African and Italian Campaigns; family life, construction work and projects, and a return visit to Austria.

10 tapes, 600 mins. Interview by Barbara Barnett, 1985 OPEN: Narrator reserves right to review edited transcript. See collateral file: interviewer's notes, photocopied photos, and a partial unrevised transcript.

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11.00 items

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English

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Repository Details

Part of the UIS Archives/Special Collections Repository

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