Rinell Family Audio Recordings¶
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Rinell Family Audio Recordings include audio letters, interviews, speeches and gatherings of friends and family. We have our ear at a crack in the door, stand outside an open window, sit unseen in the corner of a room or quietly in a church's pew listening to voices who spoke, sang and laughed decades ago.We are part of their intimate circle.
Year of Recording or Event Audio Title
1937 World War II in China 1937 - 1945
Experiences of Doris Rinell during the Japanese occupation in China during World War II.
circa 1940s Kina Kaller [China Calls]
Svenska Baptistsamfundet [Swedish Baptist Mission] i Kina [China].
1946 Sailing on the Henry Wynkoop
Interview with Doris (Rinell) Brown with Lennart Holmquist regarding her voyage on the liberty ship SS Henry Wynkoop in 1946. Interview was on 19 May 2008, Kingston, Washington, USA.
1971 Oscar & Hellen Rinell, Pusan, Korea
Missionaries Oscar & Hellen Rinell, Pusan, Korea, 23 May 1971
1971 Åke Hermansson Pratar med Hedvig Rinell
[Åke Hermansson Speaks with Hedvig Rinell]
Interview of Swedish Baptist missionary Hedvig Rinell by her son-in-law Åke Hermansson in Sweden on 17 October 1971.
1971 Ventura Junior College Vespers
Side 1 & part of side 2: Ventura Junior College Vespers service, Ventura, California, 13 June 1971.
Side 2: Oscar & Hellen Audio Letter from Pusan Korea, 19 January 1972.
1971 Anna-Lena & Peter Front, 27 June 1971
Roy Rinell talks with young friends Anna-Lena and Peter.
1971
Roy's Födelsedag & Kräftskiva
[Roy's Birthday and Crayfish]
Side 1, Roy's Födelsedag is a recording of conversations at Roy Rinell's birthday gathering on 31 August 1971, at his apartment probably, in Sweden.
Side 2, Kräftskiva [crayfish] is an earlier gathering on 15 August 1971. One might well guess that crayfish was on the menu.
1971 Roy Rinell's Recorded Music & Lennart's Visit
Roy sometimes recorded music off the radio.. He liked popular Swedish music, Swedish folk music and American jazz. The last minutes of Side B Roy speaks of the visit of his nephew, Lennart Holmquist
1972
Om Kameror, Hus och Andra Saker
[On Cameras, Houses and Other Things]
An audio letter originally in the form of an audio cassette tape recording from missionaries Oscar and Hellen Rinell in Korea to their son, Roy Rinell, in Sweden.
1972 Audio Letter from Pusan Korea to Sweden
Audio letter from Oscar & Hellen in Pusan Korea to their son, Roy Rinell in Sweden, 19 January 1972.
1972 Trip through Central & Southern Korea
Missionaries Oscar & Hellen Rinell talk about their trip through parts of South Korea. No date, circa 1972.
no date Oscar & Hellen Rinell at Lake Nojiri, Japan
Audio letter from Oscar and Hellen Rinell in Japan to their son Roy in Sweden.
1979 80th Birthday Party of Hellen Rinell & David Colldén
Birthday celebration in Sweden of twin brother and sister, probably at the family cabin name Sulatorp about ten minutes outside the town of Björketorp, Sweden.
1979 Travels of Oscar Rinell 1979
Interview of Oscar Rinell in California about his travels in Sweden, Korea, USA, Hong Kong and Taiwan in 1979.
no date Oscar Rinell Speaks
Probably to a church audience in Göteburg, Sweden
1982 Missionary Oscar Rinell
Missionary Oscar Rinell speaking at a church service in Sweden, 17 October 1982.
no date Missionary Oscar Rinell Speaking before Göteborg Baptist Församling: Session 1
Oscar Rinell speaking before the Gothenberg Baptist Assembly. Oscar was a missionary from Sweden to China, leaving China in 1951.
no date Missionary Oscar Rinell Speaking before Göteborg Baptist Församling: Session 2
Oscar Rinell speaking before the Göteburg Baptist Assembly. Oscar was a missionary from Sweden to China, leaving China in 1951
no date Inspelning av Mamma's & Märta Minnen och Papa's Resa till Tsingtao
[Recording of Mamma's & Märta's Memories and Papa's Trip to Tsingtao]
1983 Hellen Rinell & Märta Kuhlin
Missionary Hellen Rinell & Märta Kuhlin, Sweden, 3 June and 6 June 1983.
1984 Doris Holmquist, 18 January 1984
Audio letter from Doris Holmquist to her parent Oscar and Hellen Rinell and brother Roy Rinell in Sweden, 18 January 1984.
1984 Funeral of Egron Rinell
Uppsala, Sweden, 15 June 1984
1986 Hellen Rinell's Heritage & Oscar Rinell Talking
1987 Funeral of Gerda Rinell
no date Hellen and Doris Listen to Swedish Radio
1991 Driving to Göteborg
Doris Rinell (aka Holmquist, Brown) talks about various subjects while driving to Göteburg, Sweden.
1991
Driving the Back Roads of Björketorp
Doris Rinell (aka Holmquist, Brown) describes the scenery as she drives the back roads of Björketorp, Sweden and later as she drives to the city of Göteborg.
1995 Funeral Reception of Oscar Rinell
Held at Linneakyrka, Göteburg, Sweden on 2 February 1995.
no date Öppnade Ogon
[Open Eyes]
Missionary Oscar Rinell, Sweden, no date.
2010 Stories of China and Sweden
Interview of Doris Rinell (aka Brown, Holmquist) by Lennart Holmquist in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
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Footnotes
Note that some of the recordings above concern the years covered in the online book Foreign Devils: A Swedish Family in China 1894 to 1951.
CHAPTER
- Read This
- Acknowledgements
- Background
- Forward
- (1866-88) Beginnings
- (1888-90) Bethel Seminary
- (1891) Johan & Hedvig Engaged
- (1892) God's Prophet
- (1893) Out to this Far Off Land
- (1894) Sailing to China
- (1895) Escape to Chefoo
- (1896) A New Home
- (1897) Germans Take Tsingtao and Kiaochow
- (1898) Margaret Born
- (1899) Twins Born in Sweden
- (1900) Boxer Rebellion
- (1901) Oscar's Childhood
- (1902) Oscar to Boarding School
- (1903) Girl's School Begins
- (1904) Lindberg Children off to Boarding School
- (1905) First Baptism Chucheng
- (1906) Furlough in Sweden
- (1907) Edith to Boarding School
- (1908) Another Missionary
- (1909) Church in Wangtai
- (1910) First Clinic in Kiaochow
- (1911) Egron Travels to Sweden
- (1912) Oscar Leaves Boarding School
- (1913) Church Consecrated in Kiaochow
- (1914) Oscar Attends Seminary
- (1915) Journey Overland
- (1916) Girls School in Chucheng
- (1917) Edith Graduates
- (1918) Conscientious Objector
- (1919) Sisters to America
- (1920) Oscar Meets Hellen
- (1921) Oscar & Hellen Engaged
- (1922) Hellen Graduates
- (1923) Oscar & Hellen Marry
- (1924) Hunting Rabbits
- (1925) A Son is Born
- (1926) Meeting of Dr. Sun Yat-sen?
- (1927) Margaret & Roy Jewett Married
- (1928) Fighting in Kiaochow
- (1929) Peace Again in Kiaochow
- (1930) Fighting Near Kiaochow
- (1931) Oscar Leaves Göteborg University
- (1932) Poppies and War in Shantung
- (1933) First Chinese Pastor Steps Down
- (1934) Sports, Severed Heads & a Mission Conference
- (1935) Successful Mission Schools
- (1936) Sacred Aspen
- (1937) Travels to America and Sweden
- (1938) Japanese Take Tsingtao
- (1939) Sharks Attack Officer
- (1940) New Pastors for Chinese Churches
- (1941) Passing of Johan Alfred
- (1942) Blomdahl Shot
- (1943) Piano Lessons
- (1944) Lally & Dollan Baptized
- (1945) Peace & War
- (1946) Liberation
- (1947) Communists Attack Kiaohsien
- (1948) Dollan Emigrates to America
- (1949) Hedvig Leaves China
- (1950) Hellen Leaves China
- (1951) Last Swedish Missionary in China
- (1952) Sweden Again
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Named Persons
- Place Names
- Organizations
- Addresses
- Audio Recordings
- International Cemetery
Foreign Devils: A Swedish Family in China 1894 to 1951
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