WOMEN TANK DRIVERS

[Jenny Carr]

Dear Prof Andrews/Claire,
The Belarussian director Viktor Dashuk made an excellent documentary about 
Russian/Belarussian women fighting in the 2nd World War - "U voiny ne 
zhenskoe litso" (1980-84) Belarus'fil'm.  Part of it was shown at the 
Edinburgh Film Festival a few years ago. - see 
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/festivals/03/28/57th_eiff.html
Jenny Carr

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Andrew" <j.m.andrew at LANG.KEELE.AC.UK>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 5:07 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] WOMEN TANK DRIVERS


> Dear SEELANGERS
>
> I've received the following interesting message from a former student -
> can anyone help?
>
> Please reply either direct to Claire, at InterpretationAsst at tankmuseum.org
> or to me, whichever suits!
>
> Best
>
> Joe
>
>
> Dear Professor Andrew,
>
>
>
> I am a past student from Keele University and studied Russian Literature
> in my final year (2003).  I now hold a research post at the Tank Museum in
> Bovington, Dorset and have a rather unusual query that I am hoping you can
> help me with.
>
>
>
> We are currently re-developing our exhibitions as part of a lottery
> project and we want to place an emphasis on the human stories behind the
> vehicles in our collection, looking at the individuals that designed,
> built or crewed them.
>
>
>
> We have a large Russian collection and I am very keen to obtain first hand
> accounts of Russian women who built or crewed tanks, especially during
> WWII.  Russia is the only nation to have ever used women in tanks on the
> front line and it is a side of the story that I feel our audiences would
> find very interesting and quite unique.
>
>
>
> I am struggling to establish if such accounts exist and I wondered if you
> may be able to advise me on my next step.  I understand that this may not
> be relevant to any research that you have done but if you have any
> thoughts on how I might be able to obtain written or audio accounts or who
> I could approach for further assistance, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
>
>
> Many thanks, I look forward to hearing from you soon.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
>
> Claire Newby
>
> Interpretation Assistant
>
> Bovington Tank Museum
>
>
> ----------------------
> Joe Andrew
> j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk
>
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