Resources
The Zamzam Story has drawn considerable interest through talks, numerous publications, interviews, presentations, and reunions of survivors. These six books represent a sample of the available resources.
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Videos
Laurence Danielson. Interviews done in 2010 for a Colorado TV station recorded as two YouTube segments, "Sinking of the Zamzam - Part I" (8:29) and "Surviving the Zamzam - Part II" (5:03).
Zamzam, A Missionary Odyssey. Chicago: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Distributed by Vision Video (26:21). This is a documentary produced by Tim Frakes in 1993.
Interview Transcripts
Paul Buyse, brother of Zamzam survivor Bob Buyse, 1993
Art Barnett, 2006
Alice Schellenberg, 2006
The Web
Billy Graham Center Archives, Collection 624 - Ephemera of the Zamzam Incident.
Charles Carr Photos. These were taken in San Sebastian, Spain on May 31, 1941 and include many of the Zamzam passengers.
Elmer Danielson, Missionary Father. Pastor Danielson wrote these reflections in a 1979 letter to his six children.
Mary Fawcett, "My Family's Experiences on the Zamzam".
Photos from Life magazine, June 23, 1941
Bob Shuster, Billy Graham Center Archives, "The Zamzam Has Been a Long Time in Sinking!"
Books
Anderson, Eleanor. Miracle at Sea: the Sinking of the Zamzam and Our Family's Rescue. Bolivar, Mo.:Quiet Waters Pub., 2nd rev. ed., 2001
Bonner, Kit and Carolyn. Great Ship Disasters. MBI, 2003, pp. 116-119 and 121.
Brown, Kingsley. Bonds of Wire. Toronto: Harper Collins, 1989
Danielson, Wilfred. Zamzam (Ship) Bibliography, Chronology, Memoir, and More. 2022
Gossage, Carolyn. The Accidental Captive: The Story of Seven Women Alone in Nazi Germany. Dundurn, 2012
Guernsey, Isabel Russell. Free Trip to Berlin. Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1943
Guttormson, Olga; Nelson, Jane. Ships Will Sail Again. Minneapolis: Augsburg Pub. House, 1942
Holwerda, Luella Faith. Zamzam's Faith in the Middle. AuthorHouse, 2011
Hoyt, Edwin Palmer. Raider 16. New York, World Pub. Co., 1970
Kazim, Muhammad. The Sinking of the Zamzam. 1945. Translated from Arabic to English by Lucy Shafik for the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives, Wheaton, IL, 2020
Levitt, Peter. A Memoir on the Sinking of the Zamzam. Toronto: Lugus Publications, 2011
Mohr, Ulrich; Sellwood, Arthur V. Atlantis: the Story of a German Surface Raider, as Told to A. V. Sellwood. London: W. Laurie, 1955
Nadeau, Eugene. La Perle au Fond du Gouffre: Zam-Zam et Barbeles. Montreal: Fides, (12 ed.) 1961
Oiness, Sylvia M. The Sinking of the Zamzam. Elgin, Ill.: General Mission Board, 1942
Pitt, Barrie. The Battle of the Atlantic. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1977
Rogge, Bernhard; Frank, Wolfgang. The German Raider Atlantis. New York: Ballantine Books, 1956
Scherman, David E. The Sinking of the Zamzam. (Unpublished) ©1994 David E. Scherman, ©2000 Rosmarie Redlich Scherman.
Schellenberg, Daniel, A Cloud of Witnesses: The Life and Work of Alice Schellenberg. Calvary Church, Lancaster, PA, 2012
Slavick, Joseph P., 1964- . The Cruise of the German Raider Atlantis. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2003
Stewart, James W. Sinking of the Zam Zam. Diary of James W. Stewart with the British American Ambulance Corps. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2012
Swanson, Swan Hjalmar, ed. ZAMZAM, the Story of a Strange Missionary Odyssey. Minneapolis: Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod, 1941
Thomas, Gabe. Milag: Captives of the Kriegsmarine: Merchant Navy Prisoners of War. Germany, 1939-1945. (Pontardawe): The Milag Prisoner of War Association, 1995
Trobisch, Ingrid Hult. On Our Way Rejoicing! New York: Harper & Row, 1964. Republished by Tyndale House, 1986
Magazines
Homan, Gerlof D. "Mission Interrupted But Completed." Illinois Mennonite Heritage, 2000. Reproduced partly in Zamzam newsletter, April 2001.
Murphy, Charles J. V. "The Sinking of the Zamzam," Life, June 23, 1941
"Prison Ship: Nazi Censor Releases Life’s Zamzam Pictures." Life, Dec. 15, 1941. Pictures by David Scherman.
Vicovari, Frank. "I Rode a German Raider," Collier's, July 15, 22, 29, 1944, by Frank Vicovari, as told to Lucian Gray
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