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Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0142

Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 November 2000; a “Song and Service Book for Ship and Field: Army and Navy,” 1942; a copy of Honorable Discharge paperwork, 21 February 1946; various photographs of Kaplowitz while serving in the Women's Army Corps (WAC), circa 1945; Artifact Box includes a bag of WAC Veteran's Association souvenir buttons; bottle openers.

Dates

  • circa 1944-2000

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

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Biographical / Historical

Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg (1924-2009) of Brooklyn, New York, worked in classified communications with the Women's Army Corps from 1944 to 1946. Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg was born on 23 November 1924 in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian parents. She attended Thomas Jefferson High School in New York and worked as a secretary before joining the military."

Goldberg enlisted in the Women's Army Corps on 7 December 1944 and became part of the United States Army Air Force. After basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in early 1945, Goldberg served at Sheppard Field in Wichita Falls, Texas. Due to a broken arm, she was transferred from radio operator school to the Army Airways Communication System headquarters in Asheville, North Carolina. There, Goldberg worked with classified files in a secure room in city hall. Goldberg did similar work with the AACS (Army Airway Communications System) at Langley Field, Virginia, where she was transferred to in fall 1945.

She was discharged on 21 February 1946 at Fort Dix, New Jersey, as a sergeant. Ann Kaplowitz married Abe Goldberg after the war. They lived in Brooklyn, New York, California, Nevada, Maine, and Florida and had two sons. Goldberg continued to work, including as a secretary at Fieldston School in the Bronx. She died in Florida on 26 April, 2009.

Extent

0.42 Linear Feet (4 folders and Artifact box)

Language of Materials

English

Metadata Rights Declarations

  • License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.

Condition Description

The condition is good.

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Processing Information

Processed by Matthew McCarthy.

Title
Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg Collection
Status
Completed
Author
Matthew McCarthy
Date
2022 May
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
eng

Repository Details

Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository

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