Zamzam (Ship)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 496 Papers of Mabel Buyse
Collection
Identifier: CN 496
Scope and Contents
Diaries, photographs, correspondence, and a scrapbook relating to Mabel Easton Buyse’s missionary service with Africa Inland Mission among the Dungu and Bafuka people groups in Belgian Congo (later, Zaire) before her marriage and later service in Aru and Kasengu, Belgian Congo; Goli, Uganda; and Opari, Sudan. Buyse was involved with setting up, operating, and teaching in schools in each place she worked. The scrapbook deals with the 1941 sinking of the Zamzam, in which her brother-in-law,...
Dates:
Created: 1908-1967
Collection 624 Ephemera of the ZamZam Incident
Collection
Identifier: CN 624
Scope and Contents
Diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, oral history interviews, correspondence, photos, and other materials relating to the passengers, mainly American missionaries, who were aboard the ship Zamzam, sunk in the south Atlantic Ocean in 1941 by a German warship. Materials describe the sinking, the subsequent experiences of the passengers as German prisoners and the internment of some for the duration of the war, and reunions held in later years by the survivors and their families.
Dates:
Created: 1941-2012
Collection 630 Oral History Interview with Arthur M. Barnett
Collection
Identifier: CN 630
Scope and Contents
One oral history interview with Arthur Malcom Barnett, in which he describes his parents’ work as missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) among the Maasai people in Kenya, the development of Christianity in East Africa; traditional Maasai culture, his experiences aboard the Zamzam in 1941, and different aspects of medical missions. Other topics discussed include different AIM missionaries, including the Stauffachers, Davises, and Collins; the effect of World War II, leprosy treatment...
Dates:
2006
Filtered By
- Subject: World War, 1939-1945. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Missionaries. 2
- Women missionaries. 2
- Africa. 1
- Africa. -- Description and travel. 1
- Biarritz (France) 1
- Children of missionaries -- Kenya. 1
- Christianity and culture. 1
- Colonialism -- History -- Africa 1
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 1
- Conversion. 1
- Education 1
- Education -- Sudan. 1
- Education -- Uganda. 1
- Education -- Zaire. 1
- Leprosy -- Hospitals -- Kenya 1
- Leprosy -- Hospitals -- Tanzania 1
- Maasai (African people) 1
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 1
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 1
- Missionaries -- Retirement. 1
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 1
- Missions -- Educational work. 1
- Missions -- Kenya. 1
- Missions -- Sudan. 1
- Missions -- Tanzania. 1
- Missions -- Uganda. 1
- Missions -- Zaire. 1
- Missions, Medical -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Missions, Medical -- Kenya. 1
- Missions, Medical. 1
- Missions, medical -- Tanzania 1
- Missions. 1
- Prayer groups. 1
- Prisoners of war 1
- Prisoners of war -- Germany. 1
- Women 1
- Women -- Religious life. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. 1 ∧ less
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