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Oral history interview with Marcelle Duval

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.5.3 | RG Number: RG-50.498.0003

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    Oral history interview with Marcelle Duval

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Marcelle Duval, born in Paris, France discusses her academic career before the war and completing her law degree; her family’s move to Fontainebleau; colleagues of hers who were taken during the Vél' d'Hiv Roundup; the lack of food and facilities provided to the victims; her volunteer work with the Red Cross and training to become a nurse and social worker; the hospital in which she worked and her specialization in anesthesia; her involvement and experiences in the National Emergency Teams; the small aid station she provided to Jews who had been rounded up and held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver; the horrendous conditions at the velodrome; her time in Normandy after the Allied invasion; her unit’s service to the First Army in Belfort, Vosges, Ruhr, and Tyrol; her continued services as a nurse after the war; her return to France in 1945; and her postwar professional career as a director of a welfare center.
    Interviewee
    Marcelle Duval
    Date
    interview:  1999 September 27
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    3 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Duval, Marcelle.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:57:06
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