[Interview of Jessie Melis on her service as a teacher in occupied Germany from August 1950 to July 1953].

In an oral history interview, Jessie Melis talks about her service as a teacher in occupied Germany from August 1950 to July 1953. She recalls the devastation in German cities, socializing with German citizens, German customs, her living quarters in Munich, taking meals in the officer's mess, her ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Vincent Voice Library (digitizer,, current owner.)
Other Authors: Melis, Jessie, 1915-2012 (Interviewee)
Hornbacher, Elsie, 1918- (Interviewer)
Language:English
Subjects:
Melis, Jessie, > 1915-2012 > Interviews.
Melis, Jessie, > 1915-2012 > Travel > Palestine.
Teachers, Foreign > Germany > Interviews.
World War, 1939-1945 > Destruction and pillage > Germany.
Germany > Social conditions > 1945-1955.
Germany > Economic conditions > 1945-1990.
Ex-Nazis.
Teaching > Germany.
Teaching > United States.
Destruction and pillage.
Economic history.
Social conditions.
Teachers, Foreign.
Teaching.
Travel.
Germany.
Middle East > Palestine.
United States.
1939-1990
Oral histories.
Interviews.
Genre:
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 audio file (53 min., 22 sec.))
Format: Electronic Audio Software
Description
Summary:
In an oral history interview, Jessie Melis talks about her service as a teacher in occupied Germany from August 1950 to July 1953. She recalls the devastation in German cities, socializing with German citizens, German customs, her living quarters in Munich, taking meals in the officer's mess, her experiences with the black market and the depressed German economy. Melis also talks about meeting former Nazis, the differences between teaching in Germany and the U.S., the differences between American and German students and traveling to Berlin through the Russian Zone. Melis says that she traveled to Palestine and Jerusalem before finally returning to the U.S. to help her family and re-establish her career in East Lansing, MI. Melis 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 32757
DB32757 cassette
Playing Time:00:53:22
Participant or Performer:
Interviewee, Jessie Melis ; interviewer, Elsie Hornbacher.