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Oral history interview with Arlette Benichou

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.163 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0629

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    Oral history interview with Arlette Benichou

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Arlette Benichou (Messaouda-Fortunée El Haïk), born March 7, 1921 in Tunis, Tunisia, discusses her family background; how her family gained French citizenship because her father was employed by the French protectorate; her schooling; working in the Postal Service; the background of her husband, Albert Benichou; how she learned of Albert’s Jewish identity; marrying Albert in June 1941 and moving to his hometown of Orléansville, Algeria (now Chlef, Algeria); losing her government job because of the Vichy regime’s antisemitic legislation; how her husband started a firewood business using a Catholic acquaintance to legally own the business; how the acquaintance took over the business when her husband was ill and then refused to return it to him; how her family doctor worked in secret because Jews were no longer authorized to practice medicine; giving birth to five children between 1942 and 1952; knowing about the secret plans for the liberation of Algeria; listening to de Gaulle on a small radio which they hid from the authorities; the invasion of Allied soldiers in 1942; how her family invited English soldiers into their home to eat with them; how her husband joined the French army while still remaining in his job in the Postal Service; and leaving Algeria in 1962 and settling in Toulouse, France.
    Interviewee
    Ms. Arlette Benichou
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2011 August 07

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Benichou, Arlette, 1921-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Arlette Benichou in Toulouse, France on August 7, 2011. This interview is part of a series of USHMM-produced interviews about Jewish life in countries in North Africa during the Holocaust.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:58
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