Elsie Hornbacher talks about her overseas service as a teacher in Japan, Italy and Austria after WWII

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Elsie Hornbacher talks about her overseas service as a teacher in Japan, Italy and Austria after World War Two. Hornbacher talks about going to Japan in 1949, her ocean voyage to Yokohama, shipboard life, riding out a typhoon, the destruction still evident in postwar Japan, Japanese culture, and how life for the Japanese gradually began to improve. Hornbacher discusses the school where she worked, the curriculum, her students, visiting Hiroshima and about the Korean War and American dependents evacuating from Korea to Japan. Hornbacher says that she was reassigned to Naples in 1952, and that the city was unsafe and controlled by the mafia. After "enduring" a year in Italy, she says that she was next sent to Austria which she found both colorful and interesting and was finally sent back to the U.S. in 1954.

Date Issued:

1983-04-27T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

Place:

Japan, Hiroshima-shi, Japan, Japan, Italy, Naples, and Austria

Subject Topic:

Travel, Teaching, World War, 1939-1945, Destruction and pillage, Korean War, 1950-1953, Teaching, and Teaching

Subject Name:

Hornbacher, Elsie and 1918-

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5m690