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Oral history interview with Michel Oppenheimer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.421 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0614

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    Oral history interview with Michel Oppenheimer

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    Interview Summary
    Michel Oppenheimer, born March 16, 1930 in Darmstadt, Germany, discusses his parents Moritz and Margarete Oppenheimer; his father’s cigar factory in the town of Fränkisch-Crumbach, Germany; his sisters Hannah, Ruth, and Féodora; attending a Jewish school in Höscht; how the day after Kristallnacht, his father and half-brother Ernst were arrested; how Moritz and Ernst were sent to Buchenwald, but Ernst was released because he had papers showing a visa for the United States; moving with his family to Mannheim; how Hannah and Ruth left Germany in June 1939 as part of the Kindertransport, but he and Féodora were too young to leave; being deported to the camp of Gurs in southern France; how, he left Gurs for La Maison des Pupilles in Aspet; how his parents were sent to the Rivesaltes internment camp near Perpignan in spring 1941; how he spent a month and a half at the Château de Chabannes in Creuse and then ended-up at the Château de Masgellier; later living with a rabbi and his wife; living in Bas-Pays near Montauban and the town of Aubenas, and then Feneyrols; attending a special school called “cours complémentaires;” passing his “Certificate of Studies;” enrolling in the (Ecole de l’orientation professionnelle) on the rue Gay Lussac; becoming an apprentice to a man who blew glass; working with scientists at the government research center (CNRS) in Meudon; and meeting his future wife Miriam and raising one son and one daughter.
    Interviewee
    Michel Oppenheimer
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2010 June 30

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    Language
    French
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Michel Oppenheimer in Paris, France on June 30, 2010. The interview was transferred to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in January 2011.
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    2023-11-16 08:03:53
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