John Boot and Niek Boot
Recorded
September 19, 2016
37:44 minutes
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Id:
mby015389
Description
John Boot (80) talks to his younger brother, Niek Boot (67), about being an identical twin, growing up in the Netherlands during WWII, moving to the United States to study econometrics, and living Buffalo for almost half a century.Subject Log / Time Code
- Niek Boot (NB) reads an introduction of what the conversation will entail with John Boot (JB): JB's identical brother, moving to the U.S. and living in Buffalo.
- JB talks about his life depicted during the war with the Germans taking over his school.
- JB talks about his uncle who was able to finance the Dutch resistance against the Germans during WWII.
- JB talks about eating nearly exclusively potatoes during the last months of the war.
- JB talks about getting his PhD at Stanford and Wisconsin studying Mathematical Economics, Statistics, and Econometrics.
- JB talks about his journey to Buffalo.
- JB talks about marrying his wife and the neighborhood they lived in in Buffalo.
- JB talks about being a union member.
- JB talks about the textbooks he's written.
- JB talks about his wife's role in the Buffalo International Institute, which focuses on immigrant/refugee resettlement.
- JB talks about the changes in Buffalo.
- JB talks about being an immigrant in the U.S.
- JB talks about his grandfather sitting in a carriage in 1872 in from of Niagara Falls.
Participants
- John Boot
- Niek Boot