Missouri Ex-POWs Oral History Project, Records, 2000- (C3975)
INTRODUCTION
Interviews with ex-prisoners of war (POWs). The records include audio cassettes and transcripts.
PROJECT SKETCH
The Missouri Ex-POWs Oral History Project is conducted by the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia. The purpose of this ongoing project is to record, preserve, and honor the personal histories of Missouri's Ex-Prisoners of War. The initial phase of the project concentrated on members of the American Ex-Prisoners of War, Heart of America Chapter based in Kansas City, Missouri. The American Ex-Prisoners of War (AX-POW) is a national, non-profit organization of American citizens who were captured by the enemy. Researchers will note that some of the interviewees, although members of the Missouri-based chapter, resided in Kansas.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The Missouri Ex-POWs Oral History Project Records consist of oral interviews on audio cassettes and transcripts of the interviews. The cassettes are arranged in the order in which they were created; the transcripts are arranged in the same order. An audio list and an alphabetical list of the transcripts are included in this inventory. A list of POW camps where the interviewees were and an index of major topics found in the transcripts follow the inventory. The vast majority of the interviewees were prisoners during World War II in either the European or Pacific theater.
Because this is an ongoing project the following lists might not be up-to-date. Consult the reading room staff for more information.