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Oral history interview with Arlette Taïb

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.228 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0632

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    Oral history interview with Arlette Taïb

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Arlette Taïb, born April 10, 1930 in Sétif, Algeria, discusses her family; her parents’ background; her father’s work as a manager for a wealthy Jew, traveling six days a week, only returning home for Shabbat dinner; her memory of arriving at school for the start of sixth grade and being told that Jewish students could not return to school because of the Vichy regime’s anti-Jewish laws; attending makeshift classes run at her local synagogue; her family faring rather well despite rationing because they had farm goods to barter for necessities; how American soldiers who attended services at the synagogue were invited to eat with families in Sétif once Algeria was liberated by the Allies; living with her family in a building owned by a Muslim; how a French Alsatian family that lived on her same floor belonged to the ultra-right wing organization, Croix de feu; wanting to pursue her studies after her baccalaureate, but being unable to do so because of lack of means; becoming a teacher in a French school; her husband’s job as a tax inspector; living with him on the outskirts of Sétif; leaving Algeria permanently in 1961 after an incident; requesting, along with her husband, to be transferred to municipal jobs in France; being placed in the town of Barbezieux; and retiring and moving to Bordeaux.
    Interviewee
    Arlette Taïb
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2011 September 06

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    TaÏb, Arlette, 1930-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Mrs. Arlette TaÏb in Bordeaux, France on September 6, 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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