| Title |
Sidney, Matz, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998 |
| Alternative Title |
Accn 998, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Sidney, Matz |
| Description |
Transcript (95 pages) of interview by Leslie Kelen with Sidney Matz on November 12, 1985 for the Interviews with Jews in Utah Oral History Project. |
| Creator |
Matz, Sidney, 1919-2001 |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949-; Oral History Institute |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1985-11-12 |
| Date Digital |
2015-07-06 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Magna, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5777793 |
| Subject |
Jews, American--Utah--Interviews; Matz, Sidney, 1919-2001--Interviews; Antisemitism--United States; Kennecott Copper Corporation |
| Abstract |
Matz (b. 1919) talks about his family background in Russia, the pogroms that took place there, his mother's immigration to the United States, his father's business, the Ku Klux Klan, and anti-Semitism in Magna, Utah. He also talks about the Greek unions, working for Kennecott during the Depression, school prayer, his lack of Jewish identity, and his father. He also touches on Hitler and World War II, life after the war, discrimination, and his years at Kennecott. 95 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
95 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Is Part of |
Interviews with Jews in Utah collection, 1982-1988, http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv70657/ |
| Scanning Technician |
Niko Amaya; Halima Noor |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6xs7q4z |
| Topic |
Jews, American; Antisemitism; Kennecott Copper Corporation |
| Setname |
uum_iju |
| ID |
902533 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xs7q4z |
| Title |
Page 89 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_iju |
| ID |
902524 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Sid Matz 11-25-85 s3: 27 and ore, you know. And then, the y 'd come around with and the y 'd raise the track up. And then yo u'd jammy dance the rest of the day7 tapping the stuff under the ties. And raising the track up as they went around. And you just kept doing that. And it was 1 2 miles around, and you just -- you'd go twelve miles and ma y be it would take yo u a couple ofmonths an dma y be you ' d raise the track up so - the tail1ngs would keep going in there . but now, they do it with - the U You know, in big trucks, big dump trucks . and they just dump it out . And then -- Then , when we did it , they were in cars . Railroad cars like this coal cars just open up the bottom and then the ore would all drop on the track . Well, they couldn ' t pull the cars out until all that ore was shoveled out and cleared the tracks , see. And then they ' d -- LK That ore - was that just waste? SM Waste . Yeah . Well , it was. They say it's worth million of dollars if they ever want to rerun it. You know, the tailings and everything that ' s in there . LK Right. SM There's a lot of gold in there and precious metals. That's been going in that dike for years. In fact, they were offered I think 22 cents a ton if a guy could just come up there with a machine and rework the tailings. He figured he could get enough ore to make money , - you know. But. the company wo uldn't hear about it. If they were going to rework it, they ' ll do it themselves. Which they never have |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xs7q4z/902524 |
