Acculturation

Date: 1993-1995 - 01 Aug 1993 - 03 Mar 1995

By: Patete, Antonella, active 1995; Club Garibaldi

Reference: OHColl-0482

Description: Interviews with members of the Italian community in Wellington. Interviewees are Antonina and Raffaele Volpicelli, Rosalia La Via, Raffaele Esposito, Antonio Cuccurullo, Rosalia Amitrano and Camillo Amitrano, Caterina Aprea, Giuseppe Iaccarino, Vincenzo Di Mattina, Cristina Vinaccia, Vincenzo Criscillo, Liberato Moreno, Margery Barnao, Angela Panettieri, Luisa Ruocco, Mattia and Emma Amitrano, Carla Tizzoni, Stella Criscillo, Olga Falleni, Rosina Moleta, Giovanni Mersi, Maria Grazia Toscano, Giuseppe d'Esposito, Liberato Della Barca, Silvio Famularo, Bartolomeo and Elisabetta Serci, Felina Natoli, Ida Basile, Maria Costa, Teresa Elenio, Carolina Volpicelli, Joe Barnao, Cristina De Gregorio and Lina Volpicelli. Publication - Two part research essay by Antonella Patete: 'Parte prima - la presenza italiana in Nuova Zelanda; Parte seconda - l'emigrazione da Stromboli e Massa Lubrense a Wellington' Awards/funding - Project received funding from the NZ Lottery Grants Board Interviewer(s) - Antonella Patete Quantity: 40 C60 cassette(s). 11 C90 cassette(s). 34 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other summaries in Italian available for some of the interviews. Some abstracts contain copies of photos of interviewees

Date: 1999-2000

Reference: OHColl-0484

Description: Interviews with second generation Dutch New Zealanders to establish which aspects of `Dutchness' shape their lives. Focuses on people who have made a significant contribution to New Zealand. Includes interviews with Carol Slappendel, Maarten Wevers, Harry Duynhoven, Joris de Bres, Frank van Hattum, Carla van Zon, Cornelia Beentjes, Michael Okkerse, Yvonne van Dongen, Lyn Potter, James Ensing-Trussell, Peter Ruygrok, Martin de Jong, Maarten van der Neut, Wyn Hoadley, Pauline Leslie-Kroef, Yvonne Willering, Mark van Roosmalen, Gaike Knottenbelt, Helm Ruifrok, William Noordanus and Koenraad Kuiper. Interviewer(s) - Hans van Kregten Interviewer(s) - Hank Schouten Interviewer(s) - Elizabeth Smaal Interviewer(s) - Annelies Wierda-van Westen Interviewer(s) - Pauline van der Wiel Interviewer(s) - Kathinka de Monchy Interviewer(s) - Yoka McLeod-Saris Quantity: 32 C60 cassette(s). 22 printed abstract(s). 22 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: Mar-Apr 1997

By: Huygens, Ingrid, active 1997; Huygens-Prins, Mathilde Sophie Maria, 1921-2009

Reference: OHColl-0665/1

Description: Mathilde Huygens-Prins tells the story of her and her husband's lives in Holland and after their emigration to New Zealand in 1951. Recalls her childhood during the Depression and family life in Holland during World War II. Comments on the mood in post-war Europe. Talks about her husband, Cornelis Huygens, who grew up in Amsterdam. Describes how he was a forced worker in Germany during Allied bombing and later translated German documents for the American army. Describes their courtship and decision to migrate to New Zealand. Discusses arriving in New Zealand and the many changes from living in Europe. Recalls living in Auckland, Te Teko and Whakatane in the 1950s. Mentions some prejudice towards foreigners. Describes the family's move to Nelson and growing grapes there. Interviewer(s) - Ingrid Huygens Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 folder(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available Some notes in OHA-3861.

Date: 27 Oct 1998

By: Roland, Zoe Gabrielle, 1973-; Szentirmay, Paul, 1928-2002

Reference: OHColl-0669/1

Description: Discusses the acquisition of the the English language and cultural differences between New Zealand and Hungary. Discusses immigration from Hungary and acceptance in New Zealand. Interviewer(s) - Zoe Roland Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 folder(s) - biographical information. 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other OHA-3876.

Date: 23 - 27 Sep 1985 - 23 Sep 1985 - 27 Sep 1985

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: King, Pamela Maureen Livinia, 1933 -

Reference: OHInt-0053/12

Description: Pamela King was born in Gloucestershire on 22 May 1933. Describes her early childhood in Britain, death of her father and remarriage of her mother to a soldier in the New Zealand Forestry Division in Britain. Recalls their emigration to New Zealand, settling in Maungarakau and her social acceptance as a `Pom' at school. Describes in detail the school and the Maungarakau community, social events, domestic details, food supplies and preservation and language differences. Talks about the Maungarakau timber mill where her stepfather worked, loading timber onto coastal ships on the Maungarakau River and bushmen. Recalls dances, her own employment and attitude to women in paid work during the 1940s and 1950s, tobacco picking, her move to Collingwood after her marriage and changes in Collingwood over the years. Venue - Collingwood : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Tasman Street, Collingwood Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002972; OHC-002973; OHC-002974; OHC-002975 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 576.

Date: September 1985 - 01 Sep 1985

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Hindmarsh, Francesca Margarita, 1917-2012

Reference: OHInt-0053/06

Description: Francesca Margarita Hindmarsh was born in Wellington on 28 December 1917. She describes the emigration of her father and two uncles to New Zealand from Stromboli, Italy and their clearing of a farm on D'Urville Island ca. 1900. Talks about her uncles' return to Stromboli for wives. Recalls in detail her early childhood on the island, speaking Italian and Maori, and the primitive facilities on the island. Talks about the culture shock of moving to Wellington for schooling and finally to settle. Describes the adaptation of her parents from life in Italy to New Zealand, her feelings about Stromboli and her mother's people (the Moleta family), religion, family principles, her mother's premonitions and some intolerance towards `foreigners'. Venue - Wellington : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Mrs Hindmarsh's home in Berhampore Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002958; OHC-002959; OHC-002960 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 572.

Date: 4 Mar 1985

From: European refugees to New Zealand - oral history interviews

By: Beaglehole, Ann (Dr), 1948-; Macaskill, Ilse, 1915-2004

Reference: OHInt-0009/33

Description: Ilse Macaskill was born in Germany in 1915 and came to New Zealand on the `Rangitane' in January 1940. She was working for the Quakers in Berlin before the war and with their assistance left Germany for England days before war was declared leaving her father, brother and other family members. A group in New Zealand called the `Five Million Club'(their goal was a population of five million in NZ), who targeted Jewish girls from Germany and Austria as immigrants, brought her to the country. As a condition of the scheme she was a domestic servant on her arrival in NZ). Describes other jobs after her arrival in the country, some homesickness and sadness on hearing about the deaths of her family but her basic adaptability to becoming a New Zealand citizen. Describes her ambition to become a child psychologist and studying part-time while working. Notes that she married in 1944 and graduated with an MA in 1948. Describes involvement in WEA, repertory, Phillip Smithell's dance group and piano playing. Recalls involvement with Quakers but not with the Jewish community. Mentions friends Ruby and Edward Dowsett, her rapport with Maori and learning the Maori language. Describes being first secretary and counsellor of the Family Guidance Council. Comments on being trained by Mario Fleischl who was trained by Freud and came to New Zealand . Comments on his influence on the medical profession and his establishment of Freudian psychoanalysis in NZ along with Eva Fishmann and Christchurch pioneer in this area, Dr Bevan Brown. Interviewer(s) - Ann Beaglehole Quantity: 1 transcript(s) y - edited. 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-1613.

Date: 05 May 1985

From: Oral history of Maltese Australians

By: Camenzuli, Guzepp, active 1915-1985; Caruana, Mark, active 1985-1999; Calleja, Marija, active 1985-1999

Reference: OHC-011120

Description: Interview with Guzepp Camenzuli, an early Maltese cane farmer migrated to Cairns, Queensland, Australia, from Malta. Written in Maltese. Interviewer(s) - Mark Caruana Interviewer(s) - Marija Calleja Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other Publication with same title accompanies the cassette which was published at a later date - given abstract number. Search dates: 1915 - 1985

Date: Aug 2000-May 2001

By: McMenamin, Dorothy, 1947-

Reference: OHColl-0562

Description: Interviews with Anglo-Indians now living in New Zealand who spent their earlier lives in colonial India. Interviewees are Jeanne Dever, Tony Mendonca, Renee Hart, Neale Hewett, Daphne Pugh-Stemmer, Richard Cox, Bob Hansen, Dick Leckey, Bill Barlow, Beryl MacLeod, and Norman Barnett. Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Further recordings are held by MacMillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury. Quantity: 23 C60 cassette(s). 10 printed abstract(s). 11 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.