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Helmut Olschewski

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In the record

1924–2015

Helmut Olschewski

Helmut Siegfried Olschewski was a Salt Lake City speaker in the 1960 recordings. The archive file for 16 October 1960 is labeled Helmet Olschewski, a spelling of his given name.

A Larkin Mortuary notice records that Helmut Siegfried Olschewski was born on 18 June 1924 in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, Germany, to Otto and Anna Carolina Olschewski, and that he immigrated to the United States with his family in 1932, at the age of eight.1 Department of Veterans Affairs and Social Security records give the same birth date, and say that he served in the U.S. Army from 1 July 1943 to 13 January 1946 and died on 25 March 2015.2

He was a brother of Alfred Erich Olschewski (1911–1984). A 1990 obituary of their sister Charlotte Johanna Olschewski Mittelstaedt names their parents as Otto and Anna Waldhaus Olschewski.3 Another brother, Herbert Guenther Olschewski (1919–2021), is named as a speaker on later funeral recordings in this archive; that is a different man, and those later files are not treated here as talks by Helmut.4 A third brother, Gerhard Helmuth Olschewski (1916–2006), also of Salt Lake City, had a similar middle name and is not the speaker on the 1960 file.5

A Clark County, Nevada, marriage index records the marriage of Helmut S. Olschewski and Coral H. Beagley on 24 July 1967.6 The 2015 notice says he died at home on Wednesday, 25 March, at the age of 90, that a private funeral was held at home on 28 March, and that he was buried at Elysian Burial Gardens. It names his wife, Coral Hope, among those who survived him.1

In this archive the 16 October 1960 recording made at a general meeting in the Zitting home in Salt Lake City is labeled Helmet Olschewski. An automatic transcript of the opening does not clearly name the speaker, so the identification rests on that file label, read as Helmut.7

Appearances

1960

  1. TalkZitting home, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Zitting home, Salt Lake City · 2:08:4913:42

Sources

  1. “Helmut Siegfried Olschewski,” Larkin Mortuary (Salt Lake City): born 18 June 1924, Koenigsberg, East Prussia, Germany, to Otto and Anna Carolina Olschewski; immigrated to the United States in 1932 at age eight; died at home on Wednesday, 25 March 2015, at the age of 90; private funeral at home, Saturday, 28 March; interment at Elysian Burial Gardens; survived by his wife, Coral Hope. Larkin Mortuary notice (PDF).
  2. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs / Social Security record compiled at Sorted By Name, entry for Helmut S. Olschewski, Social Security number 103-12-6608: born 18 June 1924; entered the U.S. Army 1 July 1943; released 13 January 1946; died 25 March 2015. sortedbyname.com/letter_o/olschewski/index_2.html.
  3. “Charlotte Johanna Olschewski Mittelstaedt,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 2 September 1990: born 6 December 1905, Königsberg, East Prussia, to Otto and Anna Waldhaus Olschewski. Transcription at blankenshipweb.com. See also the page for Alfred Olschewski.
  4. “Herbert Guenther Olschewski,” Larkin Mortuary: born 24 July 1919, Koenigsberg, Germany, the tenth of thirteen children of Otto Olschewski and Anna Carolina Waldhaus; died 27 November 2021, Salt Lake City; the last of his siblings to die. https://www.larkinmortuary.com/obituary/view/herbert-guenther-olschewski-00/. Archive funeral files labeled Herbert Olschewski include 11 November 1975 (Ianthus W. Barlow) and 10 August 1977 (Cleo Olson Barlow). Those later years are not opened here.
  5. U.S. Social Security NUMIDENT / Death Master File, entry for Gerhard H. Olschewski, also recorded as Gerhard Helmuth and Gerhard Helmut Olschewski, Social Security number 101-09-7121: born 26 July 1916, Königsberg, son of Otto Olschewski and Anna Waldhaus; died 24 April 2006; last residence Salt Lake City, Utah, 84115. Compiled listing at sortedbyname.com.
  6. Clark County, Nevada, marriage index, certificate number 196707240414451: Helmut S. Olschewski and Coral H. Beagley, 24 July 1967. Compiled listing at sortedbyname.com.
  7. Archive recording labeled Helmet Olschewski, Zitting home, Salt Lake City, 16 October 1960, catalog 12cf911d85ba, 13:42. 16 October talk. A second copy of the same talk is catalog 38e2f78e0f1d.