Photograph
Boxing Match at a D.P. Camp
| Boxing match, most likely between refugees, at a displaced persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors of the Holocaust Interviews project. Sorrin, born in New York in 1919, applied in 1940 for a position with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). He worked with Holocaust survivors as a supply officer for UNRAA team 560 at the Displaced Persons camp Neu Freimann Siedlung in Germany and later, at General Dwight D. Eisenhower's recommendation, Sorrin became the Area Director of the International Refugee Organization based at the Wolfratshausen DP camp in Bad Kissingen. When asked about this image, Sorrin revealed, "Boxing matches. I told you before that we loved boxing. I was asked in this occasion to referee a--I think they were the opening matches. Asked me if if I'd get up there and referee. I refereed four or five boxing matches. We erected the ring around the middle of one of the camps. They were not very skillful but they had a lot of enthusiasm. As I told you, we boxed a team match against the 3rd Army boxing team and we beat one or two or three of those fellows. One at least I remember was ETO boxing, European Theater boxing champion." Interview by Jean Loeb Lettofsky and David Mandel, March 3, 1980. |
| Image ID: | 57622 |
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| Creation Date: | date unknown |
| Creator Name: | Sorrin, Saul |
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| Collection Name: | Wisconsin survivors of the Holocaust. Interviews and photographs, circa 1939-circa 1945, 1974-1975, 1980-1981 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, b/w copy |
| Original Format Number: | PH 3187.20.19 |
| Original Dimensions: | 35mm |
| Camps |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
| Refugees |
| Boxers (Sports) |
| Boxing |
| Clothing and dress |
| Housing |
| Crowds |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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