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Oral history interview with Elyane Hoffman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.120 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0120

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    Oral history interview with Elyane Hoffman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Elyane Hoffman (née Beja), born in 1930 in Salonica (Thessaloniki), Greece, discusses being raised in Paris, France; her father Abraham Jack Beja and mother Fortuna Vida Nemano [PH]; her one brother (Abraham) and two sisters, one of whom of was born after the war; living in the commercial center of Paris, near Republique and Rue Saint Martin; attending school in the 3rd arrondissement on the Rue de Montmorency; her large family which had immigrated to France from Greece and were not a strict Jewish family; speaking French or Ladino; her paternal relatives who were of Portuguese descent; the antisemitism she felt before the war and when Germany invaded; the antisemitic comments made by her teachers; her parents having to register as Jews; the limitations to when and where Jews could travel; her family not being required to wear the yellow star because of their Portuguese descent; the raids and round ups of Jewish people in Paris, including her grandmother Esther Nemano who was sent directly to Auschwitz; moving with her immediate family to Portugal; living in the countryside for three months while under police surveillance before moving to Coimbra for one winter; settling in Lisbon, Portugal; life in Portugal; returning with her family after the war to Paris; life after the war and the struggles to get back to normal life; getting married in 1949 to Oskar Hoffman, a Romanian Jewish survivor of Buchenwald; her move to Australia; and how her ability to take things as they come has greatly impacted how she survived the war years and her move to Australia.
    Interviewee
    Elyane Hoffman
    Interviewer
    Magda Kron
    Date
    interview:  1996 November 07

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Hoffman, Elyane, 1930-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre conducted the interview on November 7, 1996, in Melbourne, Australia. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the interview as an accretion to its July 1996 collection purchase.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:29:44
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