Marian Estelle Gold Krugman Papers
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Oral history interview with Marian Krugman
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Primarily documents Marian Estelle Gold Krugman's background; her service in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve during World War II; and the impact of her service on the rest of her life. Krugman discusses her family history, including her parents' immigration from Poland; the various places they settled before she was born; her father losing his embroidery work during the Depression and having to move to Brooklyn; the effects of the Depression on the family; her father starting a jewelry business from the ground up as World War II was beginning; her mother's background and later years; and the death of her parents. " Krugman describes her service in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve in World War II, including her desire to join; her parent's response and support; the enlistment process; basic training at Camp Lejeune; and celebrating Jewish holidays there. She discusses the journey to Santa Barbara, California, on a troop train; anti-Semitic remarks made by a male coworker Marine; and her various jobs, including picking fruit, working in an engineering office, where she moved from hammering redheads to typing because the former wasn't a woman's job, and performing clerical work even though she didn't know how to type. Krugman adds many anecdotes about her social life, including dating between officers and enlisted women, some funny social incidents, and various dates; favorite songs and music from the 1940s; and family members who were killed in the service. " Krugman also speaks about the Marine officers and leadership; meeting different types of women in the service; a woman who became pregnant while in the Marines; older male Marines' interactions with women; the military helping her become more independent; and meeting two Marine Corps generals while on a trip to Israel later in life. Other topics include meeting her husband at college after the war; her husband and children; the Vietnam War; and working with veterans at a Veterans Administration hospital.
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Women Marines basic training class
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Group photo of a Women Marines basic training class at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, in early 1944. All of the women wear the Women Marines winter service uniform and winter service hat. Pictured from right to left: front row: Josephine Desmond, Geraldine D. Carran, Dorothy E. Lanahan, Hertha C. Schultz, Anna M. Yorkin, Shirlie Egglefield, Ferne M. Brown, Jane A. Power, Evelyn M. Klutz, Lucille Ford, Lillian Kotowski; middle row: Lois M. Chase, Daisy Belle Domanski(", Clare C. Murphy, Barbara Richards, Ann M. Dennerstein(", Marge J. Bautz, Gwendolyn Lyle, Doris Latt, Victoria Tusinski("; back row: Dorothy Oxendine, Clara E. Kantack(", Thea Beavan, Mary Schmidlen, Emily Franklin, Agnes Wirth, Frances R. Schembril(", Ruth Hadley, Nancy Sapp, and Marion Gold Krugman.
