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Oral history interview with Charles Malka

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.376 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0610

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    Oral history interview with Charles Malka

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    Interview Summary
    Charles Malka, born January 1, 1922, discusses his childhood in Mascara, Algeria; attending school with Christian, Muslim, and Jewish students; being particularly good at all types of sports and belonging to the Eclaireurs Israélites from the age of eight on; later being part of the Chantiers de Jeunesse, the Vichy youth brigade; his internment in the Camp de Bédeau; how when the Vichy regime arrived in 1940, the Jews of Algeria, who had been made French citizens in 1870 by the Crémieux Decree automatically lost their French citizenship; his job as a court clerk; being called to military service on in November 1942; Operation Torch, the plan the Allies used to liberate Algeria; his military training at Camp de Bédeau; fighting in the Battle of Monte Cassino; his military service and moving through Europe during the war; joining the police force after the war; leaving Algeria with his family and settling in Paris; and his career in the textile industry.
    Interviewee
    Charles Malka
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2010 October 01

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    3 digital files : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Malka. Charles, 1922-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Charles Malka in Sèvres, France on October 1, 2010. This interview is part of a series of USHMM-produced interviews about Jewish life in countries in North Africa during the Holocaust.
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    2023-11-16 08:03:51
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