[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with Jennie Rosenzweig in conversation with people off camera.] Jennie Rosenzweig was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in November 1918. During the war, she followed her husband all over the country. He was an assistant manager at a shoe store and was in the National Guard. When the war began, he had a choice of getting out of the Guard or going active for one year. He chose the year and then war was declared. He went overseas in January 1942 for the first time. He went to the Pacific for one year and then went to Fort Riley [Annotator's Note: in Geary and Riley counties, Kansas] for school. He made second lieutenant in May 1944 and then was with the 44th Recon Squad [Annotator's Note: 44th Reconnaissance Squadron] in the 9th Army. He went to Germany for a year as a tank commander. He went to Holland for rest periods. He came home 6 August 1945. Rosenzweig worked sometimes while he was gone. She lived with her parents. When he was in the United States, they lived in Texas, Kansas, California, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. She cried every night when he went overseas. She has 443 of his letters. She wrote him twice a day. She had friends in the city, and they played cards, but she missed him terribly. He wrote her as often as he could. She still reads his letters at night and in the morning. The letters were lifesavers for her. They kept her going. One time, a friend of theirs had been by a sniper and did not get to know his baby. Rosenzweig did not get a letter at that time, and she was concerned.

Jennie Rosenzweig did not have a lot of friends who had husbands overseas. She had no one to share her experiences with. She got angry one night when a man said he was so glad he did not go in the service. That was not the thing to say to her. Rosenzweig went to a meeting where she was told the Japanese had hit Hawaii [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941]. Her husband was on active duty and knew he was leaving already from Camp Hulen [Annotator's Note: near Palacios, Texas]. Other outfits there had already been shipped out. He went to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] and shipped out. They had only been married for four months. He went to Canton Island [Annotator's Note: also spelled Kanton, in the Gilbert Islands, now Republic of Kiribati] for one year and there was no fighting there. She felt fortunate. He returned after the year and went to officers' school. He was in Europe as a tank commander and made captain. She followed the news closely. She has the Stars and Stripes [Annotator's Note: military newspaper] article of the day the war ended in a frame. She was delighted the war was over. Her husband returned on the Queen Mary [Annotator's Note: RMS Queen Mary] and then got out of the service. He had served five years. It was so wonderful to have him back home. He returned to Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: near Hattiesburg, Mississippi] and was discharged. He went back to work almost immediately.

Jennie Rosenzweig dreads what is going on Iraq [Annotator's Note: Iraq War, 2003 to 2011]. We do not belong there. Wars are too terrible. Too many people are killed and wounded. It is heartbreaking. World War 2 changed the United States. As a continuation from the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great Depression was a global economic depression that lasted from 1929 through 1939 in the United States], things began to get better. The war affected her until her husband came home. Rosenzweig remained a housewife and her husband went into the insurance business for 37 years. Their son was born after her husband came home. They had two more children after that. Rosenzweig has visited the museum [Annotator's Note: The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana] and is a Charter Member. It is important for kids to learn about the war. It is not happening, but it should be.

Rationing was not hard for Jennie Rosenzweig. Oleo was used instead of butter, and it looked like lard. She added salt and cream to it. They bought a lot of chicken and had vegetables. She managed without any trouble. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Rosenzweig what she brought to show him. Her daughter is off-camera and asks about it as well. The daughter reads something about a person in Poland who had written a letter.] She is Jewish. Her husband's grandparents came to the country [Annotator's Note: from Europe] and his grandmother did not like living here. They went back. She died, but her husband was exterminated. Her brother-in-law came over with children from Germany before the war. He went back and fought the Germans. His parents and younger brother were exterminated. It was heartbreaking to read about the treatment of the Jews in Europe. Her husband wrote her about liberating prisoners who had big, black X marks on their backs. Rosenzweig had read about Hitler's actions [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler]. It was horrible and she could do nothing about it. [Annotator's Note: Her daughter shares another letter that is in their collection, and they discuss giving them to The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana.] They have letters from people in Holland that wrote them about her husband staying with them. One letter is from someone who had found their father in Palestine [Annotator's Note: now Israel] after the war. There is also a diary that her husband kept while he was in the Pacific and from officers' school. Her husband made her necklaces when he was at Canton Island [Annotator's Note: also spelled Kanton, in the Gilbert Islands, now Republic of Kiribati]. They had a lot of free time there. [Annotator's Note: They spend quite a few minutes going through pictures off-camera.] A woman her husband stayed with in Holland needed stockings and he asked her to send some. They only had silk stockings then. [Annotator's Note: They continue to discuss donating various items to the museum and the future construction projects of the museum, as well as different people they know. The video goes black at 0:42:20.000.]