| Title: |
Sigmund Boraks
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Tulane University. Southern Institute for Education and Research
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| Collection: |
Louisiana Holocaust Survivors
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| Description: |
Sigmund (Siggy) Boraks was fourteen when World War II began. He was born in Wielun, Poland. His father was a barber. His parents and younger sister were murdered at Treblinka death camp. Siggy survived ghettoes, labor camps, and Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp (where he worked in crematorium #3). He was liberated by American troops at Dachau concentration camp in April 1945, five and a half years after his tragedy began. The following interview was conducted by the Institute's Holocaust Education Specialist, Plater Robinson.
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| URL: |
http://www.southerninstitute.info/holocaust_education/sigmund_boraks.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Speaker: |
Boraks, Sigmund (Siggy), 1925-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
18-Jul-1925
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Poland; Europe
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Interviewer: |
Robinson, Plater
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| Historical events discussed: |
Holocaust, 1938-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Louisiana; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Emigration and immigration; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, 1938-1945; Immigrants; Jewish children in the Holocaust; Louisiana; North America; Oral history; United States
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0025922-27853
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