Letter from Pierre B to the National Personnel Center (May 17, 2012)

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Dublin Core

Title

Letter from Pierre B to the National Personnel Center (May 17, 2012)

Alternative Title

Letter from Pierre B to the NPC (May 17, 2012)

Subject

World War, 1939-1945
Veterans--Florida

Description

English translation of a letter written in French from Pierre B to the National Personnel Center (NPRC), asking for Harry Weber’s contact information and detailing how Weber saved Pierre and a friend from a grenade left behind by the Germans. Pierre was a boy of 9 when Harry Weber saved him from a grenade the Germans left behind in his village after the D-Day invasion. Harry Weber’s family received the letter with his records from the NPRC.

Harry Weber was born on July 11, 1917. His mother, Eva, and father, Abraham, immigrated to the United States from Russia. Harry entered the United States Army in January 1943, at the age of 25 during World War II. Ten months after entering the Army, he married Edith Chizefsky. After returning to the United States, Harry Weber worked as a salesman and a librarian. He and Edith had three daughters. Weber is buried at the Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, Florida.

In 2017, the University of Central Florida was one of three universities selected to launch the National Cemetery Administration’s Veterans Legacy Program. The program engaged a team of scholars to make the life stories of veterans buried in the Florida National Cemetery available to the public. The project engages UCF students in research and writing and fosters collaboration between students, faculty and local Central Florida schools to produce interactive curriculum for k-12 students. The corresponding website exhibit uses RICHES Mosaic Interface to create a digital archive of related data. The public can use the project-developed augmented-reality app at more than 100 gravesites at the Florida National Cemetery, where they can access the UCF student-authored biographies of veterans.

Creator

B., Pierre

Source

Digital reproduction of typewritten translated letter.

Date Created

ca. 2012-05-17

Format

image/jpg

Extent

18.5 MB

Medium

1-page typewritten letter

Language

eng

Type

Text

Coverage

Saint-Germain-du-Pert, Normandy, France

Accrual Method

Donation

Mediator

History Teacher

Provenance

Originally created by Pierre B.

Rights Holder

Copyright to this resource is held by Harry Weber family. RICHES received permission to reproduce the image.

Curator

Ortiz, Samuel
Cravero, Geoffrey

Source Repository

Weber Family Personal Collection

External Reference

Abney, Barb. "VA Selects UCF Historians to Archive Stories of Deceased Veterans Veterans." UCF Today, March 13, 2017. Accessed August 9, 2017. https://today.ucf.edu/va-selects-ucf-historians-archive-stories-deceased-veterans/.
Black, Jeremy. World War Two: A Military History. London [u.a]: Routledge, 2003.

Citation

B., Pierre, “Letter from Pierre B to the National Personnel Center (May 17, 2012),” RICHES, accessed November 21, 2024, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/10007.

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