Do you have folklore and family stories from your elders and ancestors about life on the homefront during WWII? Letters? Diary entries? How did they get by with war work, rationing, and Victory Gardens? Did they feel a kinship, a national bond with others? Did they observe (or participate in) the Black Market? Was rationing a problem for them?
I am interested in oral WWII social history for a compilation episode of From Paper To People. I’d really like to interview people in the next two weeks. I will air the episode as the first of Season 4, in January.
If I get enough responses, I’ll make this an ongoing feature throughout 2021. I like the feel of it as a direction for Season 4.
I think that comparisons and contrasts between privations and unity then, and a need for international unity in the face of the pandemic now, are valid and important. Please be a part of this episode or series!
