Anne Kovach Oral History Interview

Armenian, Granite City, immigration, Lincoln Place, World War II

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This oral history interview with Anne Kovach was part of oral histories conducted in the fall 2001 semester of History 447: Oral History.

Anne Kovach was born in Macedonia in 1907 and immigrated to the United States with her father as a young child and has lived in Lincoln Place for most of her life. In this interview, she talks about her father’s career as an American Steel employee and saloon owner, the grocery store she owned with her husband, the education of girls learning English as a second language, the sowing girls did for the war effort during World War II, the Bulgarian-Macedonian Ladies Aid Society, and the Cyril and Methody Bulgarian-Macedonian Church in Lincoln Place.

• Louisa H. Bowen University Archives and Special Collections

Fall 2001 Granite City Oral History Interviews

• Lincoln Place
• Granite City

Kovach, Anne

October 29, 2001

• Granite City
• Lincoln Place

English

• Oral History

• mp3
• pdf

• 01:24:43

Smithe, Lisa

Kirchoff, Anne

Lincoln Place, Granite City, Illinois

246 kbit/s

• Lincoln Place
• Granite City, Illinois

• Kirchoff_Anne-O-001
• Original archive accession number: A02:43