Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): Ernesto ValdezProjects: University of HoustonDr. Mattox was interviewed in his office at Ben Taub General Hospital on July 20, 2006. This interview sheds light on the sophisticated network of disaster and trauma that exists among first responder units irrespective of the types of disasters: earthquakes, storms, floods, explosions, or terrorists attacks. It was from this body of knowledge and experience that Houston and Harris County personnel were...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): Ernesto ValdezProject: University of HoustonMr. Frank E. McBride was interviewed on June 16, 2006 in Room #524, Agnes Arnold Hall, University of Houston, Houston, Texas. Mr. McBride was one of the first television cameramen that viewed the devastation in New Orleans with the added perspective of having recently lived in that city for four years. This interview depicts the early rescue efforts by local people and one state agency immediately after the...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): Ernesto ValdezProject: University of HoustonDr. Herminia Palacio, Executive Director, Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services, Houston, Texas, was interviewed on August 8, 2006, in her offices at 2223 West Loop South, Houston, Texas. Her role in the Katrina rescue represented a broad spectrum of public health issues that arose in the Astrodome and the Reliant Center complex, which in turn required her to deal with municipal to federal...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): Ernesto ValdezProject: University of HoustonDr. Roby is the Director of Neighbors-2-Neighbors Program, Office of Disaster and Preparedness and Response, a program designed to match up evacuee families with local Houstonian families. This interview looks at the analysis of a disaster and the philosophy of reestablishing the physical and emotional needs of the victims by matching evacuee families with local ones who introduce them to neighborhood stores...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): Ernesto ValdezProject: University of HoustonMs. Diana Rodriguez was interviewed in her office, City of Houston Emergency Medical Services, 15th Floor, 500 Jefferson, Houston, Texas 77002, on August 17, 2006. While most of the other interviewees in this collection were selected because they were in command echelons of the hurricane relief efforts, Ms. Rodriguez was selected because in her position as Administrative Coordinator to Dr. David Persse,...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): Ernesto ValdezProject: University of HoustonThis interview was conducted on August 14, 2006, in Mr. Solan’s office located at 2318 Atascosita Rd., Humble, Texas 77396. The essence of this narration focuses on the response of Harris County, Texas to the tens of thousands of evacuees from New Orleans, La. who were victims of Hurricane Katrina. The execution of disaster preparedness plans that was initiated and completed within a matter of hours...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): Ernesto ValdezProject: University of HoustonThis interview was conducted in the office of Dr. Vallbona, 3701 Kirby, Houston, Texas, on July 29, 2006. Dr. Vallbona’s medical services were performed in the Astrodome-Reliant Center, where he examined recent evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. He enumerates the various medical services available on site and the procedures used in order to expedite those services.The interview was conducted by...

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Interviewer(s): Sheena, Shannon

Project: University of Houston

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Interviewer(s): Sheena, Shannon

Project: University of Houston

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): Arthur ProninProject: University of HoustonAaron Joskowitz is twenty-five years of age. He is the grandson of two Holocaust survivors. His grandmother, Louise Stopnicki [maiden name], grew up in Krakow. She survived many camps, including Auschwitz. Aaron's grandfather, Rubin Joskowitz, was raised in Sosnowiec Poland. He was sent immediately to concentration camps in 1939 after Hitler invaded his country. Fifty family members were killed during the...

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Interviewer(s): Arthur Pronin

Project: University of Houston

Scope and Contents From the Collection: When UH’s Center for Public History and the University Libraries collaborated to create the Houston History Archives (UH-HHA), part of their mission included a repository for oral histories that tell stories of the growth and development of the Gulf Coast region from multiple points of view. To that end, the Houston Oral History Project in the Center for Public History trains history graduate students to research and interview Houstonians with recollections of the city’s civil rights,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: When UH’s Center for Public History and the University Libraries collaborated to create the Houston History Archives (UH-HHA), part of their mission included a repository for oral histories that tell stories of the growth and development of the Gulf Coast region from multiple points of view. To that end, the Houston Oral History Project in the Center for Public History trains history graduate students to research and interview Houstonians with recollections of the city’s civil rights,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: When UH’s Center for Public History and the University Libraries collaborated to create the Houston History Archives (UH-HHA), part of their mission included a repository for oral histories that tell stories of the growth and development of the Gulf Coast region from multiple points of view. To that end, the Houston Oral History Project in the Center for Public History trains history graduate students to research and interview Houstonians with recollections of the city’s civil rights,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: When UH’s Center for Public History and the University Libraries collaborated to create the Houston History Archives (UH-HHA), part of their mission included a repository for oral histories that tell stories of the growth and development of the Gulf Coast region from multiple points of view. To that end, the Houston Oral History Project in the Center for Public History trains history graduate students to research and interview Houstonians with recollections of the city’s civil rights,...