Physical Format: Oral histories / City or Township: Mendota Heights

Creator:: Jacobson, Marvin, 1926-
Date Created:: 2006-02-07
Description:: In this interview, Marvin Jacobson gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan and World War II veteran. He was born in Duluth, 1926, and recalls that he was raised in St. Paul by Zionist parents. Jacobson tells the story of how he graduated at age sixteen and entered military employment as a civilian. He continues to explain that at age seventeen, he enlists in the Navy, and after training around the United States, was stationed in Hawaii after Pearl Harbor occurred. He describes his life in Hawaii inspecting and repairing equipment and moves on to post-war life in St. Paul as an electrical engineer, having been educated at the University of Minnesota. This interview was conducted by Laura Savin as a part of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest World War II Veterans Oral History Project.
Contributing Institution:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Type:: Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:: Oral histories

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