World War Words: The Creation of a World War II-Specific Vocabulary for the Oral History Collection at The National WWII Museum

Author and academic, Serge Doubrovsky is an important figure in contemporary French literature. His numerous publications foretell the emergence of a new literary concept, positioning him in the domain of post-modernism with the emergence of auto-fiction. From The Dispersion to The Broken Book, the auto-fiction unfolds in a jerky narrative while the genesis of the work revolves around a profound sense of lack and absence that the writer tries to fill through his writing. The experience of World War II left a life long indelible mark on the writer’s own identity and brings forth the creation of this hybrid autobiography that aims at tearing down ge-neric and literary boundaries. Letters and words are used to confront what is missing in his life in a transgressing style that describes the violence of this experience. In this way, Doubrovsky leaves a trace of his existence, transforming his life into a novel – a work of fiction – and by giving space to imagination when telling his own story.

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The World War II Ordnance Department's Government-Owned Contractor-Operated (GOCO) Industrial Facilities: Holston Ordnance Works Transcripts of Oral History Interviews.

10.21236/ada315704 ◽

1996 ◽

Author(s):

Mark Swanson

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Oral History ◽

World War ◽

Industrial Facilities ◽

The World ◽

Oral History Interviews

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The World War II Ordnance Department's Government-Owned Contractor-Operated (GOCO) Industrial Facilities: Twin Cities Ordnance Plant Transcripts of Oral History Interviews.

10.21236/ada315713 ◽

1996 ◽

Author(s):

Deborah L. Crown

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Oral History ◽

Twin Cities ◽

World War ◽

Industrial Facilities ◽

The World ◽

Oral History Interviews ◽

Ordnance Plant

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National Traumas – Local Memories Villages Southeast and Southwest from Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) during WW2 – General Research Overview

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae European and Regional Studies ◽

10.1515/auseur-2015-0003 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 31-39

Author(s):

Alpár-Csaba Nagy

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Oral History ◽

World War ◽

Detention Camps ◽

Made In

Abstract The presentation summarizes the results of two years of oral history research. The aim of the research was to record the recollections of the still living eyewitnesses of the events in the fall of 1944 in Cluj and its surroundings, in settlements that belonged to the southern part of Transylvania during World War II. Several hours of interviews were made in the villages of the regions of Ţara Călatei (Kalotaszeg) and the Transylvanian Plain (Mezőség), and the lecture presents a synthesis of these interviews. They address issues like deportation, atrocities, fleeing, arm usage, Soviet and Romanian detention camps, adventurous escapes, etc.

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Japanese Commemorations of World War II in the Mariana Islands

Pacific America ◽

10.21313/hawaii/9780824855765.003.0016 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Keith L. Camacho

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

The United States ◽

Mariana Islands ◽

World War ◽

War Memories ◽

The Creation ◽

The 1960S ◽

A Site

This chapter examines the creation and contestation of Japanese commemorations of World War II in the Mariana Islands. As an archipelago colonized by Japan and the United States, the Mariana Islands have become a site through which war memories have developed in distinct and shared ways. With respect to Japanese commemorations, the analysis demonstrates why and how they inform and are informed by Chamorro and American remembrances of the war in the Mariana Islands. By analyzing government, media, and tourist accounts of the war from the 1960s to the present, I thus show how we can gain an understanding and appreciation for the complex ways by which Japanese of various generations reckon with a violent past.

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Building the World War II Memorials, 1945–1960

War and Remembrance ◽

10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 183-221

Author(s):

Thomas H. Conner

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Second Generation ◽

Family Members ◽

Special Treatment ◽

World War ◽

The Public ◽

The Us ◽

The World ◽

Us Government ◽

The Creation

This chapter looks at the longer aftermath of WWII and traces the creation of the second generation of ABMC sites. Focusing on the process of securing grounds overseas, allowing family members to decide where their loved ones would be buried, and obtaining US government clearance on designs, the account is reminiscent of the start of the ABMC and its first project. By 1960, fourteen cemetery memorials had been dedicated. This chapter also highlights the leadership of the agency’s second chairman, General George C. Marshall, and his direction of the building of memorials in eight countries to remember the 400,000 Americans who had died and the 16 million who had served in WWII. Marshall’s high standing in the US government and in the public esteem, just as was true of Pershing, greatly helped the agency to fulfill its renewed mission. The special treatment shown the grave of General George S. Patton in the Luxembourg American Cemetery is also detailed.

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Barbed Voices: Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social Disaster

The Oral History Review ◽

10.1080/00940798.2020.1771921 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 47 (2) ◽

pp. 360-362

Author(s):

Troy Reeves

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Oral History ◽

Japanese American ◽

World War ◽

The World ◽

Social Disaster

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Brief aus der Schweiz

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie ◽

10.1515/dzph-2019-0023 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 67 (2) ◽

pp. 282-299

Author(s):

Markus Wild

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Analytic Philosophy ◽

Recent History ◽

World War ◽

The Public ◽

Public Consciousness ◽

History Of ◽

Academic Philosophy ◽

The Creation ◽

The University

Abstract This letter focuses on both the recent history of academic philosophy in Switzerland and its present status. Historically, institutional self-consciousness of philosophy came to life during World War II as a reaction to the isolation of international academic life in Switzerland; moreover, the divide between philosophy in the French part and the German part of the country had to be bridged. One important instrument to achieve this end was the creation of the “Schweizerische Philosophische Gesellschaft” and its “Jahrbuch” (today: “Studia philosophica”) in 1940. At the same time the creation of the journal “Dialectica” (1947), the influence of Joseph Maria Bochensky at the University of Fribourg and Henri Lauener at the University of Berne prepared the ground for the flourishing of analytic philosophy in Switzerland. Today analytic philosophy has established a very successful academic enterprise in Switzerland without suppressing other philosophical traditions. Despite the fact that academic philosophy is somewhat present in the public, there is much more potential for actual philosophical research to enter into public consciousness. The outline sketched in this letter is, of course, a limited account of the recent history and present state of philosophy in Switzerland. There is only very little research on this topic.

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