Lainie Breaux

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Lainie Breaux

Helen "Lainie" Breaux

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Katrina's Jewish Voices

Rosalind Hinton interviewed Lainie Breaux on September 17, 2006, in New Orleans, Louisiana, as part of the Katrina's Jewish Voices Oral History Project. Breaux reflects on her upbringing, activist family background, evacuation during the storm with her newborn son, and her ongoing work as a therapist in New Orleans.

http://jwa.org/oralhistories/breaux-helen
Lainie Breaux

Lainie Breaux

Having just given birth days before the storm, Lainie Breaux was focused on the needs of her new baby in the chaos of evacuation.

http://jwa.org/communitystories/katrina/narrators/breaux-lainie
Lainie Breaux

Lainie Breaux

When the hospital tending Lainie Breaux’s newborn son temporarily lost contact with her during Hurricane Katrina, Breaux used her fifteen minutes of fame to call attention to the plight of others devastated by the hurricane.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/breaux-lainie

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