Andrews Ashe Baker Berdie Blue Bolinder Branson Buchanan Bufflap Caccavale M. Caccavale P. Calhoun Cannon Carringer Case Caylor Chatfield Colijn Colton H. Colton M. Crabbe Crawford Cress Culbreth Dixon Dunton Edwinn Ellis Ensley Feldman Fox Galbreath Gaunt Gennett Jr. Ginn Jr. Gray Griffin R. Griffin W. Gudger Hall Hamblen Harshaw Hendricks Hicks Hilbert Hoyle Jewitt Johnson Katen King Kirkpatrick Kreamer Lamb Lamprinakos Lamy Ledbetter Leigon Leslie Lewis Littlejohn Lloyd Longcoy Martin McAdams McLewin Metcalf Meyers Middleton D. Middleton W. Mitchell Moody Moore Morgan Murphy Neilson Norfleet Ownby Parks Ponder Popkin Rathbun Ray Reed Rice Roberts B. Roberts L. Robinson Rogers Rosenthal Sanders Sargeant Schaill Schmidt Schochet Sechler Sher Smathers Smith Smith Starnes Straus Sultan Sutton Swaim Tash Taylor Thompson Tipton Wellisch Williams Wolcott Wright Young Youngdeer	Helga Robertson Ellis
	BIOGRAPHY: Mrs. Ellis was a civilian employee of the German Army from 1940 to 1945. Stationed in France, she was a prisoner of war once the US troops entered. She spent two years on a US base after the war as she awaited her departure arrangements.
	Title	Helga Robertson Ellis Oral History
	Creator	Helga Robertson Ellis
	Alt. creator	unknown
	Subject Keyword	Helga Robertson Ellis ; WWII ; war ; military service ; Women in the military ; German prisoners of war
	Subject LCSH	World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German Oral history World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe Veterans -- Germany -- Interviews World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Germany World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German Prisoners of war -- Germany
	Description
	Publisher	D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
	Contributor
	Date	Date digital: 2008-04-02, 2008-05-15
	Type	Video
	Format	1 DVD
	Identifier	http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/oralhistory/wwii/ellis_helga.htm
	Source	OH WWII E45 H4 Ellis_Helga
	Language	English
	Relation	Is part of: WWII Mountain Memories: Home Front to the Frontline,Testimonies of WWII Veterans and Civilians from Western North Carolina . Is related to: We were each other's prisoners : an oral history of World War II American and German prisoners of war / by Lewis H. Carlson ; War stories : remembering World War II / Elizabeth Mullener ; with a foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose
	Coverage
	Rights	No restrictions ; Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville and the Center for Diversity Education. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
	Acquisition
	Processed by	Center for Diversity Education ; Staff, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections
	Interview date
	Interview location	Hendersonville, NC
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