MS COLL 00193E Norman W. Borring Archives Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
120 St. George St. Toronto Ontario Canada M5S 1A5 Telephone: 416-978-5285 Email: fisher.library@utoronto.ca http://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/
2023-11-28 Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.6.4 2024-10-24 20:03 UTC English Norman W. Borring Archives MS COLL 00193E [1944-1946] 1 box and 1 oversized book. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
120 St. George St. Toronto Ontario Canada M5S 1A5 Telephone: 416-978-5285 Email: fisher.library@utoronto.ca http://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/

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Borring, Norman W.

Captain Norman W. Borring was among the liberators of the Laufen Concentration Camp, 5 May 1945.

Published

Final

CA OTUTF MS COLL 00129A

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

Materials accumulated and created by United States Military Captain Norman W. Borring during the latter part of the Second World War. The materials in this collection primarily include Historical Reports, scrapbooks with a variety of materials, and photographs.

 Photographs and art Textual records Audio

Purchased by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library from Kestenbaum and Company’s Auction House in 2021.

No restrictions on access.Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://aeon.library.utoronto.ca

 Photo Album with crest of the Lafen Landkreiser MS COLL 00193E-1:1 n.d.

Published

Includes 240 photographs of American Military Operations during the World War Two, taken by Captain Borring, and captioned in English. Material includes Captain Borring landing at Omaha Bay on D-Day, Laufen Concentration Camp liberation, survivors, Military Staff Meetings, Jewish Community workers, a memorial ceremony.

Fragile.

 Photo Album of the Burial of the Victims of Fascism MS COLL 00193E-1:2 n.d.

Published

4 pages of photographs with annotations.

 Monthly Historical Reports (March, May, June) MS COLL 00193E-1:3-1:5 1946

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3 bound, typescript reports written by Captain Borring. Informational content relates to the legal, political, and civil situation in postwar Laufen, Germany.

 Third Army – A Brief History of Operations in Europe MS COLL 00193E-1:6 194-

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Printed 13-page booklet of the Operations of the Third US Army between 1 August 1944 to 8 May 1945. Includes a chronological record of events.

 Sink the Bismark, by Johnny Horton MS COLL 00193E-1:7 1960

Published

Material includes a vinyl record, originally released in 1960 by Columbia Records.

 Covering letter with enclosed article MS COLL 00193E-1:8 6 May 1946

Published

One signed covering Typescript letter about the Inauguration of a Memorial Stone for the Victims of Fascism requested to be printed in the newspaper, signed by Georg Lakner.

 Loose material removed from Scrapbook MS COLL 00193E-1:9 n.d.

Published

Material includes photographs, an officer hand receipt, a Thanksgiving Day menu and table sitting cards. Materials removed from Scrapbook pages 36, 45 and 47.

 Scrapbook - Oversized MS COLL 00193E-2:1 1944-1946

Content warning: Some photographs contain graphic imagery of death.

Published

Materials includes newspaper articles; official documentation; military payment and bank notes from France, Austria, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Hungary; a 50kroner “Holocaust” note with Captain Borring’s annotation; identification cards; safe-conduct passes; German and American maps; photographs with annotations and some identified subjects; water colour art works; and original signed correspondence to Captain Borring.

Fragile.