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Oral history interview with Georges Azogui

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.229 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0633

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    Oral history interview with Georges Azogui

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    Interview Summary
    Georges Azogui, born on October 13, 1943 in Meknès, Morocco, discusses his parents; growing up in a villa in the Jewish quarter of Meknès; his family’s synagogue, attended by over 200 people; speaking Arabic at home, but learning to read and write only in Hebrew; his education in a secular school; being raised by his grandmothers; his family’s vineyard; studying oenology in Bordeaux after he passed his baccalaureate exam; his siblings; an incident depicting the friction between the Muslim and Jewish communities; Morocco declaring its independence from France in 1956; living on Ben Gurion’s kibbutz after completing his oenology studies; working in Corsica and Greece; settling in Bordeaux and becoming a wholesale wine merchant; and his children’s move to Israel.
    Interviewee
    Georges Azogui
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2011 September 06

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Provenance
    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Mr. Georges Azogui 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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