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Collection includes five items: the History of John Johnson, History of Harry Martin Thorsen, "Main Street, Salina, Utah," by Harry Thorsen, History of Salina, and a compilation of historical documents describing the shooting of German POWs in Salina by Clarence Bertucci on 8 July 1945.

Scope and Contents Original typed, signed letter dated March 17, 1919, addressed to Mr. H. Goldak (Johann Goldak) as well as "Prisoners of War Company No. 10 in France" from Friedrich Ebert, the newly elected Reich President of Germany. President Ebert writes to thank Goldak for keeping up with the election and other happenings in Germany (and congratulating him on his win) and assures him that they are doing everything they can to help German prisoners to be able return home quickly. Goldak was at the time in...

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Journal, scrapbook letters, drawings, photograph, military ephemera and speech created by Evan Dee Olsen and collected by his mother Katie Christensen Olsen.

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Biographies of Evan Dee Olsen written by Katie Christensen Olsen and newspaper clippings regarding Sergeant Evan Olsen's homecoming.

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Contents include minutes from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meetings which were held in the Stalag-Luft I POW camp, located in Barth, Germany from 1944 to 1945. The minutes include a list of the names, addresses, and office of the priesthood for each member.

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Contains biographies about Evan Dee Olsen written by his mother Katie Olsen and a scrapbook of sketches and photographs from Evan Dee Olsen's time in the Army and as a prisoner of war during World War II. Also included are other ephemera dealing with his life. Dated 1941-1949.

Scope and Contents Contains family correspondence in two subsets: 111 letters and postcards written between Joachim Schwatlo-Gesterding and his wife Doris, or from Joachim to a "Peterchen" ("little Peter," possibly Doris's son from her previous marriage) or the odd family member or friend, mostly while he was a prisoner of war in Russia (in Moscow and nearby Lager'), between January 1944 and September 1955; and 58 letters and postcards written to Siegfried Carl Schwatlo (and/or occasionally Pearl before they...