Leon Hollerman oral history interview

1981-05-26

Hollerman, Leon; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with Leon Hollerman conducted by Marlene Mayo on May 26, 1981. Leon Hollerman (1916 - 2006) was born and raised in Rochester, New York in 1916, and later attended the University of Rochester in 1939 to study economics. He joined the Army in 1943 where his first role was a radio operator. During the Occupation, Hollerman was an international trade economist under General Douglas MacArthur with the Allied Powers Supreme Command. Upon returning to the U.S., he went on to earn his doctorate and became a professor of economics at Claremont Graduate School. His career was largely focused on economics in Asia. He passed away in 2006.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952

Japan; Tokyo

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 01:30:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 49 pages (PDF)

This oral history interview is part of the Marlene J. Mayo oral histories. A guide to the full collection of Marlene J. Mayo oral histories is available in our archival collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42478.
Accession 2009-209-GWP
An interview transcript is available.

Filename: prange-087551