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Interviewee: Beth Giordano

Interviewer: Sarah Langsdon

Date: February 16, 2006

This is an oral history interview with Beth Giordano. It is being conducted on February 16, 2006 at her home in Ogden, Utah, and concerns her recollections and experiences of meeting a prisoner of war in Ogden during World War II and her subsequent marriage to him. The interviewers are Sarah Langsdon.

SL: Okay Beth why don’t you just tell us a little about yourself, where you were born, grew up.

BG: Well I was born in a little farming town of Black Pine, Idaho. It’s a Cassia county it’s close to, well right now there’s nothing left of the little town, but we had a lot of people from Ogden homestead out there and that’s what my folk did; they homesteaded in Idaho. I went to school, and in Stone, Idaho, and then again at Bear River High School, that was my high school.

SL: What brought you to Ogden?

BG: Well we came to Ogden mainly for work, I guess. I was married before to an American soldier and he was killed in the Battle of the Bulge, Luxemburg, and so after he was killed I came to Ogden to go to work at the Defense Depot. That’s where I met my second husband, Joseph, working for the army Defense Depot at Ogden.