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From Collection 487
INTERVIEWER: I noticed that one of the speakers was Mrs. J. W. Guilding who was one of the survivors of the Zamzam [Egyptian freighter sung by a German submarine during World War II. The crew and passengers of the Zamzam, including several American and British missionaries, were interred in Germany.] sinking. Do you remember that?

FELDI: Yes, I remember her.

INTERVIEWER: How would you describe her talk?

FELDI: She was another very dynamic individual. In fact, when she was here, I think her husband was still in prison in Germany because he was detained, I think, until the end of the war. And I'm not sure when he was released, but many times we prayed for him, because his health was not good. But I think he was English and I think that was one reason why he was detained. And they were missionaries in Kenya in East Africa where my parents...we were in Tanganyika at the time, but they were out under the Africa Inland Mission, and when I was a student at the Rift Valley Academy, she was on the mission field at that time.

INTERVIEWER: What did she say about the Zamzam?

FELDI: Well, it was a very interesting experience, cause we had a lot of other friends who were on there. Are you familiar at all with the Barnett family? Arthur Barnett and his wife were on there. And he was a doctor and he had gotten together a lot of equipment to take back to Zaire. And in those days, ten thousand dollars was a LOT of money, and the equipment that he had was somewhere in the range of ten or fifteen thousand dollars. All he could think of was, "All that equipment going to the bottom of the ocean." But their lives were spared and they eventually went back to Africa.