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Oral history interview with Henri Dray

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.227 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0631

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    Oral history interview with Henri Dray

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Henri Dray, born on January 15, 1925 in Oran, Algeria, discusses his pre-war life in Oran; his family; attending a secular public school; speaking French at home; leaving school when he received his brevet at age 13 or 14; his religious education; the drafting of his five brothers by the French army; not being mobilized until 1944; combat training; being sent to the south of the département of Constantine, Bou Saâda, to quell a restive FLN uprising; taking over his father’s butcher shop after being demobilized in 1946; owning a supermarket; fleeing Algeria with his family, and leaving behind most of their belongings in 1962 when it declared independence from France; moving to Bordeaux; his life in France; and his son and daughter.
    Interviewee
    Henri Dray
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2011 September 05

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Dray, Henri, 1925-
    Corporate Name
    France. Army

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Mr. Henry Dray in Bordeaux, France on September 5, 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 08:03:59
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