Memoirs: 1992, 1993

Edna M. Boardman donated one folder of materials in which she describes her experiences during World War II. This includes a photocopy of her article, "Winning World War II: How a North Dakota Farm Child Did Her Part for the War Effort," which appeared in the March 1992 issue of Heritage Review. Boardman was six when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. She and her family were Mennonite Germans from Russia. Boardman provides a view of the North Dakota home-front during World War II. She describes problems with labor, clothing and food shortages, community feelings of patriotism and the problems of being German and Mennonite (a pacifistic religion) during the war. Boardman also contributed a short essay in which she recalls the problems of a German Canadian relative living in Canada during the war. (Accession #93-1905) One portrait of Edna Boardman was separated and placed in the Photograph File Cabinets (#1278-78).