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Libby Werbner collection, 1942-2003, Date accessioned: 2019-07-01

 

Summary

Creator:
Libby Werbner, 1919 -
Extent:
1 folders 1 oversize folder
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Libby Werner collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_02_0505

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Libby Werbner who served as a teacher with the Manzanar, California Japanese American Internment Camp during World War II. The collection includes an oral history interview transcripts and original photographs. Werbner describes her experience as a third grade teacher, Japanese culture, life in the camp, Army recruitment and the difference between her experiences at an internment camp and what she heard about concentration camps.

Biographical / historical:

Libby Werbner was born August 12, 1919 and was a graduate of San Francisco State College who worked as an elementary teacher at the Manzanar internment camp from August 1942 to December 1943. After leaving Manzanar, she attended graduate school. Her husband was interned by the Japanese at Manila.

Custodial history:

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Libby Werner collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_02_0505

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA