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Oral history interview with Lucie Ragin

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.167 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0532

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    Oral history interview with Lucie Ragin

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Lucie Ragin, born in 1935, describes her childhood in Antwerp, Belgium; her family, including her brother Andre Zalc and sister Joyce Mizrachi; fleeing to France with her family when war broke out; living in the internment camp Rivesaltes in Vichy France; her mother’s difficult pregnancy due to lack of food; hunger in the camp; how her father helped others escape from the camp and then had to escape himself; her mother being questioned by authorities about her father’s whereabouts; learning about Auschwitz from a rabbi; escaping the camp with her mother; arriving in Marseilles and reuniting with her father; how the Red Cross got her infant sister out of the camp; living with her family in a French woman’s hotel; how the French woman refused to collect rent; life in the village; German threats against the village; air raids; the American liberation; living in Chateau de Marjolet after the war; returning to Belgium; reasons why her parents decided to leave Europe; immigrating to United States; and the importance of speaking publicly about the Holocaust.
    Interviewee
    Ms. Lucie Ragin
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2009 July 23
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Ragin, Lucie, 1935-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, in association with the Musée Mémorial du Camp de Rivesaltes, conducted the interview with Lucie Ragin on July 23, 2009. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch received the interview in July 2009.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:25
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