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Susan Hoffman
Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
320 Elmer L. Anderson Library
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-625-0192
Email: s-hoff@umn.edu
web: http://www.jhsum.org

First Name Frances Raula
Maiden Name Gitlin
Married Name Engle
Branch of Service Air Force
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Period of service - l950-5l.

First Name Eleanor
Maiden Name Moore
Married Name Wittenberg
Branch of Service Army Nurse Corps
Town St. Paul
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Hospital ship duty. European Theatre. Four bronze stars.

First Name Edith
Maiden Name Goldstone
Married Name Erlich
Branch of Service Army Medical Corps
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Wilma
Maiden Name Miller
Married Name  
Branch of Service Army Medical Corps
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Ramona
Maiden Name Silverstein
Married Name Juster
Branch of Service Army Medical Corps
Town Minot; ND
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Stationed at ll7th Army General Hospital\- Bristol, England.

First Name Sara
Maiden Name Abrams
Married Name Winer
Branch of Service Army Nurse Corps
Town Duluth
Photos X
Papers X
Notes Asian Pacific Theater Campaign Medal, Three Bronze Stars. Phillipines Liberation Star & one Bronze Star.

First Name Shirley
Maiden Name Diamond
Married Name  
Branch of Service Army Nurse Corps
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Sylvi a
Maiden Name Friedman
Married Name Troup
Branch of Service Army Nurse Corps
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Freda
Maiden Name Greenberg
Married Name  
Branch of Service Army Nurse Corps
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Sue
Maiden Name Miller
Married Name  
Branch of Service Army Nurse Corps
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Sylvia
Maiden Name Stewart
Married Name Cohen
Branch of Service Army Nurse Corps
Town Duluth
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Gifts from husband. Sylvia confined to nursing home. Incapacitated.

First Name Ethel
Maiden Name Walt
Married Name Sedlet
Branch of Service Army Nurse Corps
Town Duluth
Photos x
Papers  
Notes Deceased. Photo given by cousin - Marion Kiener.

First Name Eleanor
Maiden Name Wexler
Married Name Myers
Branch of Service Army Nurse Corps.
Town Mpls.
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Stationed in Asian-Pacific Theatre - Korea.

First Name Esther
Maiden Name Ladin
Married Name  
Branch of Service Army NurseCorps
Town Duluth
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Miriam
Maiden Name Lachs
Married Name Jonas
Branch of Service British Army - Auxiliary Territorial Service - ATS .
Town Palestine
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Palestine resident when war broke out. Joined ATS. Served : Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine. Attached to British Army Hospital units.

First Name Francis
Maiden Name Showfer
Married Name Krovitz
Branch of Service Navy Nurse Corps
Town Duluth
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Doris
Maiden Name Goodman
Married Name  
Branch of Service SPARs
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Photos include group pictures, and postcard pictures of Spars barraclks amd several individual pictures.

First Name Anne
Maiden Name Masilow
Married Name Chiat
Branch of Service SPARs
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Deceased. Survivors contacted. No response to request for items.

First Name Sylvia
Maiden Name Cohen
Married Name Norvich
Branch of Service WAAC
Town Duluth
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Contacted. Promised to send gifts. Not received yet.

First Name Anya
Maiden Name Fisher
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAAC
Town St. Paul
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Sarah
Maiden Name Hochstad
Married Name Benjamin
Branch of Service WAAC
Town St. Paul
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Ann
Maiden Name Hochstad
Married Name Stern
Branch of Service WAAC
Town St. Paul
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not interested in donating items.

First Name Beatrice
Maiden Name Rosenberg
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAAC
Town Duluth
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Ruth
Maiden Name Brooks
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAAC- WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Jeanne
Maiden Name Goldoff
Married Name Bearmon
Branch of Service WAAC- WAC
Town Brooklyn/Mpls.
Photos X
Papers X
Notes Enlisted in Brooklyn, NY. Married and settled in Minneapolis.

First Name Shirlee
Maiden Name Paskoff
Married Name Getlin
Branch of Service WAAC- WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Bronze Star. ETO Campaign ribbon.. Air offfensive European Campaign ribbon.

First Name Eva
Maiden Name Weisburd
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAAC.3.............
Town St. Paul
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Edith
Maiden Name Abramovich
Married Name Rettman
Branch of Service WAC
Town St. Paul
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Anita
Maiden Name Bercovitz
Married Name Golden
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Deceased. Contributions made by son and daughter.

First Name Marjorie
Maiden Name Brickman
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAC
Town Blue Earth
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Jane
Maiden Name Burger
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAC
Town St. Paul
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Violet
Maiden Name Druck
Married Name Jones
Branch of Service WAC
Town St. Paul
Photos X
Papers X
Notes .

First Name Dena
Maiden Name Dworsky
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Enlisted in WAAC. Re-enlisted in WAC after WAAC was disbanded and reorganized as WAC. Served in north Africa as a secretary on General Eisenhower's staff. Awarded Bronze Star in Italy.

First Name Shirley
Maiden Name Edelston
Married Name Zaveral
Branch of Service WAC
Town Duluth
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Deceased - April 2l, l992. Gifts from Shirley's husband. Air WAC.

First Name Ethel
Maiden Name Elzas
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Ann
Maiden Name Fastoff
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAC
Town Duluth
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Deceased. No response to letters to Ann's sister - Ida Fastoff.

First Name Beverly
Maiden Name Fink
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAC
Town St. Paul
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Ann
Maiden Name Fleisher
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAC
Town St. Paul
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Betty
Maiden Name Grossman
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Jeanette
Maiden Name Hallfin
Married Name Kalusar
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minnepolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Nursing Home. Military service materials not accesible at present. Perhaps in future.

First Name Sybil
Maiden Name Harris
Married Name Ross
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Air WAC.

First Name Sonia
Maiden Name Hoffman
Married Name Levenson
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Deceased- February 5 l988. Gifts donated by husband Irving.

First Name Ruth
Maiden Name Hymanson
Married Name Barr
Branch of Service WAC
Town Anoka
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Air WAC. Contacted. Not interested in donating gifts.

First Name Adeline
Maiden Name Levin
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes WAAC. Re-enlisted in WAC when WAAC was disbanded. Joined Army Reserves after WAC discharge. Discharged from Reserves in l964.

First Name Rosalie
Maiden Name Levine
Married Name Burns
Branch of Service WAC
Town Duluth
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Shirley
Maiden Name Levitan
Married Name Goldberg
Branch of Service WAC
Town St. Paul
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Incapacitated by stroke. Husband doesn't know where her service documents and photos are. Thinks they're probably lost.

First Name Charlene
Maiden Name Lunche
Married Name Cohen
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Air WAC. Paper gifts include written summary of her military service and newspaper clippings in addition to her service documents.

First Name Harriet
Maiden Name Lurie
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAC
Town St. Paul
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Louise
Maiden Name Medalie
Married Name Bloom
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes  

First Name Franziska
Maiden Name Melzer
Married Name Sandler
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Doesn't have access to service documents and photos.

First Name Libby
Maiden Name Rivkin
Married Name Deikel
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Deceased. Gifts given by Libby's husband -- Harry Deikel.

First Name Fern
Maiden Name Sadoff
Married Name Gleeman
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Contacted. No response yet.

First Name Ruth
Maiden Name Schwartz
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Dorothy
Maiden Name Shapiro
Married Name 'Butler
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes see: Sally Shapiro Applebaum - sister.

First Name Miriam
Maiden Name Shapiro
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minnepolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Beatrice
Maiden Name Silberman
Married Name Diamond
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Married and settled in Minot, ND. Husband deceased, Beatrice deceased; no children.

First Name Simi
Maiden Name Weiner
Married Name Preis
Branch of Service WAC
Town Hudson, WI
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Deceased. Emigrated to Israel after leaving service.

First Name Molly
Maiden Name  
Married Name Schwartzman
Branch of Service WAC
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Entered service under married name - Schwartzman. Enlisted when husband - Max was killed at sea. Matuna second married name. Air WAC. Can't locate her service documents and photographs.

First Name Edith
Maiden Name Berenson
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAVES
Town St. Paul
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Lillian
Maiden Name Braeman
Married Name Bell
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Enlisted ranks and commissioned officer.

First Name Phyllis Ruby
Maiden Name Cohen
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Vivian
Maiden Name Cohen
Married Name Calmenson
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Duluth
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Jacqueline
Maiden Name Copp
Married Name Manne
Branch of Service WAVES
Town St. Paul
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Irene
Maiden Name Dansky
Married Name Levin
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Molly
Maiden Name Erlich
Married Name Tyler
Branch of Service WAVES
Town St. Paul
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Researched and gathered all names and materials for this military women of WW II database. Created database.

First Name Madalyn
Maiden Name Gottlieb
Married Name Braufman
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minnepolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Lorraine
Maiden Name Greenspan
Married Name Levin
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Contacted. Promised to send materials. Not yet received.

First Name Sarah
Maiden Name Halperin
Married Name Juneau
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Idelle
Maiden Name Kaplan
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAVES
Town St. Paul
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Annette
Maiden Name Katz
Married Name Amdurski
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Fargo
Photos x
Papers  
Notes Deceased. Gift given by her daughter - Mrs.Lois Butwin.

First Name Bertha
Maiden Name Kirzner
Married Name Juster
Branch of Service WAVES
Town St. Paul
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Mildred
Maiden Name Klayman
Married Name Shanblott
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Duluth
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Goldie Lee
Maiden Name Kozberg
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAVES
Town ST. PAUL
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Deceased. Gifts contributed by Goldie's brother - Norman Kozberg,

First Name Betti
Maiden Name Levine
Married Name Markell
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Duluth
Photos x
Papers x
Notes see: Gladys Levine Wine - sister.

First Name Gladys
Maiden Name Levine
Married Name Wine
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Duluth
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Deceased. See Betti Levine Markell - sister.Service documents and photos lost.

First Name Sarah
Maiden Name Linden
Married Name Lebow
Branch of Service WAVES
Town St. Paul
Photos x
Papers x
Notes see: Josephine Linden Leonard - sister. Women Marines.

First Name Blossom
Maiden Name Lipsie
Married Name Levine
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Chicago
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Enlisted in Chicago. Minneapolis resident since l980. Enlisted in Naval Reserves after discharge. Reserve service dates: January l947-December l949.

First Name Roberta
Maiden Name Mark
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Duluth
Photos  
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Janet
Maiden Name Marks
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAVES
Town St. Paul
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Frayda
Maiden Name Myers
Married Name Cooper
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes living in Queensland, Australia since 1978

First Name Sylvia
Maiden Name Oguark
Married Name Fishman
Branch of Service WAVES
Town St. Paul
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Margaret
Maiden Name Phillips
Married Name Friedman
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Laura
Maiden Name Rapaport
Married Name Borsten
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Volunteered at request of WAVES Director - Mildred McAfee. Member of first WAVES Officer Class trained at Midshipmen School. Held Lt. Commander rank at discharge. Also donated 30-minute audio tape summary of her servi ce and copy of her speech to the 50th Anniversary Convention of the WAVES in l992.

First Name Sylvia
Maiden Name Ratner
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Ruth
Maiden Name Resnick
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Lee
Maiden Name Ress
Married Name Rothenberg
Branch of Service WAVES
Town St. Paul
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Deceased. Husband Phillip has no documents or photos in his possession. They were given to other relatives. Original name was Libby, but she changed it to Lee.

First Name Bessie
Maiden Name Rockler
Married Name Daniels
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Known as Pat. Contact: Mryham Daniels - Daughter. Pat suffers from memory loss problems.

First Name Delores
Maiden Name Rosenholtz
Married Name Perlman
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Deceased. Contacted sister - Shirley Harris who prefers not to donate any of Delores's service photos or documents.

First Name Emma
Maiden Name Samet
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Minnie
Maiden Name Simon
Married Name Waiss
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minneapolis
Photos X
Papers X
Notes  

First Name Jeanette
Maiden Name Soloski
Married Name Kovel
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Duluth.
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Deceased. No survivors located.

First Name Ruth
Maiden Name Steinberg
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAVES
Town St. Paul
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Janet
Maiden Name Straus
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Austin
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Can't locate her service documents and photographs.

First Name Sylvia
Maiden Name Tankenoff
Married Name Rischell
Branch of Service WAVES
Town St. Paul
Photos x
Papers x
Notes see: Frances Tankenoff Weisbrot - sister.

First Name Frances
Maiden Name Tankenoff
Married Name Weisbrot
Branch of Service WAVES
Town St. Paul
Photos x
Papers x
Notes see: Sylvia Tankenoff Rischell - sister.

First Name Renee
Maiden Name Vertelney
Married Name Gill
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Duluth
Photos x
Papers  
Notes Deceased. Photo contributed by Renee's aunt - Judy Toback.

First Name Joy
Maiden Name  
Married Name Harris
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not interested in donating service documents and photographs.

First Name Edith
Maiden Name Londer
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAVES
Town St. Paul
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Ann
Maiden Name Nadler
Married Name  
Branch of Service WAVES
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not located.

First Name Katy Ann
Maiden Name Krenzen
Married Name  
Branch of Service Women Marines
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Gift - Memoirs of a Woman Marine - Leatherneck Magazine - May l992 and photo. No service documents donated.

First Name Eunice
Maiden Name Fineberg
Married Name Hurwitz
Branch of Service Women Marines
Town St. Paul
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Tillie
Maiden Name Goldberg
Married Name Riger
Branch of Service Women Marines
Town Minneapolis
Photos  
Papers  
Notes  

First Name Esther
Maiden Name Greenberg
Married Name Freshour
Branch of Service Women Marines
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers  
Notes Written summary of service in place of documents.

First Name Beatrice
Maiden Name Held
Married Name Johnson
Branch of Service Women Marines
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes  

First Name Josephine
Maiden Name Linden
Married Name Leonard
Branch of Service Women Marines
Town St. Paul
Photos  
Papers  
Notes see: Sarah Linden Lebow - sister. Josephine can't locate her service documents and photos.

First Name Sally
Maiden Name Shapiro
Married Name Applebaum
Branch of Service Women Marines
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers x
Notes Deceased. see Dorothy Shapiro Butler - sister.

First Name Bessie
Maiden Name Star
Married Name  
Branch of Service Women Marines
Town Minneapolis
Photos x
Papers  
Notes Deceased. Photo contributed by cousin.

First Name
Maiden Name r
Married Name  
Branch of Service  
Town  
Photos  
Papers  
Notes Not loc