[Interview of Rosalie Crosbie on her service with the American Red Cross in post-war Europe].

Rosalie Crosbie talks about joining the American Red Cross in 1945 and serving in post-war Europe. She discusses her duties on trains crossing Europe with children and war brides, assisting people reconnecting with family, the condition of European cities, the lack of food for civilians, the pervasi...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Vincent Voice Library (digitizer,, current owner.)
Other Authors: Crosbie, Rosalie, 1916-2006 (Interviewee)
Hornbacher, Elsie, 1918- (Interviewer)
Language:English
Subjects:
Crosbie, Rosalie, > 1916-2006 > Interviews.
American National Red Cross > Interviews.
American National Red Cross.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Female.
World War, 1939-1945 > Civilian relief > Europe.
Europe > Social conditions.
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.
Adjustment (Psychology)
Civilian war relief.
Military participation > Female.
Social conditions.
Europe.
Germany.
1939-1946
Oral histories.
Interviews.
Personal narratives > American.
Genre:
Interviews.
Personal narratives, American.
Oral histories.
Personal narratives
American.
Online Access:
Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 audio file (51 min., 29 sec.))
Format: Electronic Audio Software
Description
Summary:
Rosalie Crosbie talks about joining the American Red Cross in 1945 and serving in post-war Europe. She discusses her duties on trains crossing Europe with children and war brides, assisting people reconnecting with family, the condition of European cities, the lack of food for civilians, the pervasiveness of the black market, running recreation clubs for U.S. servicemen, and entertaining U.S. troops in the fall of 1945 as they clamored to be back shipped home. Crosbie says that she met both General Eisenhower and the Duke of Windsor, attended the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, and was later faced with the task of adjusting to civilian life back in the States and the death of her mother. Crosbie is interviewed by Elsie Hornbacher.
Note:Title supplied.
Part of the Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project.
Digitized by the G. Robert Vincent Voice Library of the Michigan State University Libraries.
Call Number:Voice 32691
DB32691 cassette
Playing Time:00:51:29
Participant or Performer:
Interviewee, Rosalie Crosbie ; interviewer, Elsie Hornbacher.
Event Details:
Recorded 1984 June 20