Title: Sam Balloff Oral History

Date/Date Range :   2004

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

Collection consists of a 114-page bound interview from Veteran's Oral History Project conducted by the Center for the Study of War and Society, Department of History at the University of Tennessee. Balloff discusses his experieces as a young Jewish boy growing up in the South and as a soldier during World War II. During the war, he was assigned odd jobs, including grave registration and truck driving.

Call number: MS-2695

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

Collection was donated to Special Collections in 2005.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Sam Balloff Oral History, MS-2695. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collections consists of a single folder.

Balloff is a first-generation American. His parents migrated to Kentucky from New York during the 1919 flu epidemic. His family established business in Lafollette (Campbell County), and eventually branched into Knoxville after WWII. Sam Balloff enlisted for service in 1942 and went to war, serving mostly as a truck driver and in grave registration. Balloff's retail store was most common in the West Town Mall in Knoxille between the 1970s and 1980s.

Collection consists of a 114-page bound interview from Veteran's Oral History Project conducted by the Center for the Study of War and Society, Department of History at the University of Tennessee. Balloff discusses his experieces as a young Jewish boy growing up in the South and as a soldier during World War II. During the war, he was assigned odd jobs, including grave registration and truck driving.

• Balloff, Sam.
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans.