Rosmary Clara Klatt Harms interview
Scope and Contents
Typed interview dated 9 May 2002. Harms was drafted into the Red Cross in 1940-1 and served in a field hospital in Russia in 1942. In this interview, she talked about her training and the conditions she faced in Russia. She was captured by the Americans at the end of the war and imprisoned with the men until she was recognized as being a woman. She met her husband, George Harms, at that time, and they were married in August of 1947. They later lived in the United States. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2001.
Dates
- Creation: 2002
Creator
- Harms, Rosmary Clara Klatt, 1923- (Person)
- Latter-day Saint Nurses at War Project (Organization)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Interview must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical note
Harms was born in Essen, Germany, in 1923 and served with the Red Cross Nursing Corps during World War II.
Extent
1 item (12 p.)(0.02 linear ft.)
Custodial History
This item was donated to Special Collections by Patricia Rushton in 2003.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated; Patricia Rushton; 2003.
Appraisal
LDS, Utah, and Western American women (20th century Western & Mormon Manuscripts collection development policy, 5.V, 2007).
Genre / Form
Topical
- Home and Family
- Latter Day Saint women -- Interviews
- Medicine and Health
- Military
- Nurses -- Germany -- Interviews
- Politics, Government, and Law
- Science, Technology, and Health
- Social Life and Customs
- War brides -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German
- Title
- Register of Rosmary Clara Klatt Harms interview
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Benjamin Sipes
- Date
- 2011 April 13
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States