Gulfport, MS

Interviewee Collection Sort descending Description Interviewer Date of Interview Location of Interview Affiliation
Oscar Sanzin Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History

Mr. Oscar Sanzin was born October 15, 1925, in Yugoslavia. When he was thirteen years old, the Nazis overran his hometown in Yugoslavia, destroying the town and killing its occupants. Sanzin escaped and served in the Resistance. He was later a prisoner of war in Germany, and he was taken to Africa in the hold of a ship as a slave laborer. He was liberated by the Americans, and he immigrated to the United States where he became a commercial fishermen on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. On June 22, 1950, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, he married Helen Martin (born July 12, 1930).

Barbara Hester Gulfport, MS NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute