» Boroughs (Zig) papers, 1984-2008

The collection consists of correspondence, memoirs, and other papers of Zig Boroughs, an American soldier who served with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II. Two memoirs are included: one written by Edith Jakobs, a Jewish native of Germany who was liberated by members of Boroughs’s unit while in hiding in the Netherlands the other by Werner Tom Angress, also a Jewish native of Germany, who enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as an interrogator with Boroughs’s unit.