- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Moussa A., who was born in Damascus, Syria in 1910. He describes childhood in the Jewish section; his mother's death when he was twelve; being raised by his religious grandparents; attending primary school at the Alliance israélite universelle, then a Catholic secondary school; denial of a scholarship to the Ecole de Chartres in France because he was Jewish; obtaining Syrian government funding to study in Paris provided he returned to teach in Syria; discovering his love of theater while in Paris; teaching in Damascus despite his desire to remain in France; becoming a colleague of Jean Gaulmier; the painful departure in 1933 from his father (he never saw him again); studying at the Sorbonne with Gustave Cohen, with whom he later lived; writing for "Le Droit de vivre," the LICA newspaper; an evening with Bernard Lecache, head of LICA; employment as an actor with a traveling company; meeting Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in New York; and returning to France in 1938.
- Author/Creator
- A., Moussa, 1910-1997.
- Published
- Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1995
- Interview Date
- April 18, 1995.
- Locale
- Syria
Damascus (Syria)
Paris (France)
New York (N.Y.)
- Cite As
- Moussa A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3202). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Wieviorka, Annette, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
Related publication: Le Droit de vivre. -- Paris : La Ligue international contre le racisme et le antisémitisme.
Related publication: The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews / Susan Zuccotti. New York, NY : Basic Books, c1993.
Associated material: Odette A. Holocaust testimony [wife] (HVT-3201), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Associated material: Odette A. Holocaust testimony [wife] (HVT-2092), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Associated material: Odette and Moussa A. Holocaust testimony [with wife] (HVT-3203), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
