Elsie Freeman Finch receiving an award from Archivist of the United States Bert Rhoads, May 12, 1977. (Photo courtesy of Alex Poole, from the National Archives of the United States)
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On August 16, 2018 the inaugural AHS Archival History Award was given to Patricia Kennedy Grimsted for her chapter, “Pan-European Displaced Archives in the Russian Federation: Still Prisoners of War on the 70th Anniversary of V-E Day” in Displaced Archives edited by James Lowry. These are her remarks accepting the award.
