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Oral history interview with Miriam Oppenheimer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.422 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0615

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    Oral history interview with Miriam Oppenheimer

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    Interview Summary
    Miriam Oppenheimer, born February 17, 1934 in Mulhouse, France; discusses her childhood in an Alsatian Jewish family; her parents, Grand Rabbi René Hirschler and Simone Lévy; her sister, Jocelyn, and her brother, Alain; her father’s appointment as Grand Rabbi of Strasbourg at an early age; how the family took refuge in Bordeaux and then Nantes when France went to war in 1939; living in Marseille from 1941to 1943; how her father was “Aumonier General” or General Chaplain in the internment camps throughout southern France; how in November 1943 her father decided to send his children to boarding schools in the Alps; being sent with her sister to a Catholic boarding school in La Bourboule; how teachers knew that they were Jewish but hid the truth; leaving La Bourboule in 1945 to stay with an aunt and uncle in Villeneuve-sur-Lot; attending high school in Clermont-Ferrand; living with her sister and brother in Paris with their maternal grandmother; working at the Institute of Social Sciences; meeting her future husband, Michel Oppenheimer, at the home of a rabbi; and their children.
    Interviewee
    Miriam 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 Miriam Oppenheimer in Paris, France on June 30, 2010. The interview was transferred to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in January 2011.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:53
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