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Oral history interview with Roger Boas

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.444 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0444

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    Oral history interview with Roger Boas

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Roger Boas discusses his childhood and young adulthood in San Francisco, California; his experiences with antisemitism in Europe while travelling there in 1935; being drafted; serving in the Fourth Armored Division of the Third Army; his wartime experiences; landing in Normandy shortly after D-Day; his personal dealings with General George S. Patton; the battles in Lorraine, France; the horror he felt when confronted with the conditions at Ohrdruf concentration camp; his encounters with Polish and Jewish camp survivors; his postwar experiences, including his automobile dealership, his political involvement, and his family life.
    Interviewee
    Roger Boas
    Interviewer
    Gene Ayres
    Richard Kirschman
    Doris Ober
    Date
    interview:  1990 October 23
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Geographic Name
    San Francisco (Calif.)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Roger Boas on October 23, 1990. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 2002.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:45:17
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