Item HBE/1/9/2 - HB Ron Goldstein Interview P2.MP3

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HBE/1/9/2

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HB Ron Goldstein Interview P2.MP3

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  • 2016-2020 (Produção)

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1 file, 46.4MB

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(?-present)

História biográfica

Harriett was a PhD candidate at University of York between 2017 and 2020. As part of her PhD research, she carried out face to face interviews with a number of Second World War veterans.

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One of two interview recordings. The interview "took place on 7 November 2016 at the interviewee's home" (transcript).

The interview transcript (HBE/1/11) provides the following background information about Ron Goldstein: "Ron Goldstein was born on August 16th 1923 in London and was called up in October 1942 and served Wireless Operator in Light Ack Ack in the UK. He later served in North Africa, Sicily and Italy and was later re-trained as a Loader/Operator and ended his wartime career in the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars as a Corporal in March 1947. After the war, Goldstein worked for his Father’s clothing company and later became a Manager for other clothing companies. He is Jewish and joined AJEX after war" (transcript).

The interview includes discussion about demobilisation, the heroes return lottery scheme, not talking about the war, war films, losing his brother, working in factories, drinking culture, AJEX, Remembrance Day, the lack of freedom in interviews, digital books, the poem 'Vigil' by Jeremy F. Robson "written by a Jewish person at a German railway station", wanting to record his experiences, having a diary ("you could get shot for keeping a diary"), learning to use a computer.

Parent folder: 2020/008
MD5 Checksum: 290fd975f712c9a53e60c1dab910cbcf
Original Creation date: 07/11/2016 (not validated by DROID).
Last-modified date: 09/04/2020. Altered during digital preservation activities by Frances Bell.
File size: 46.425MB
File format: MPEG 1/2 Audio Layer 3
File extension: mp3
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The parent folder (2020-008) contains eighteen audio files (constituting ten interviews) and one Microsoft Word document.

Arrangement intervention is level 1 (no intervention by the archivist). The original material has been retained without any intervention by the archives staff. This does mean that the collection may include filenames containing spelling mistakes and duplicate files that were placed in the wrong folder(s) by the creator.

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Images are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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  • inglês

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    See also York Normandy Veterans archive (NVA).

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