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Oral history interview with Mebourah Zerbib

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.234 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0638

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    Oral history interview with Mebourah Zerbib

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    Interview Summary
    Mebourah (Prosper) Zerbib, born January 23, 1922, describes his childhood in Constantine, Algeria; his parents Eliahu and Messouka; his father’s occupation as a jewelry repairman; his family’s strict religious observance of traditional Judaism; his family’s first apartment with Christian, Jewish, and Muslim residents; his family’s forced relocation to a more Jewish oriented apartment due to the landlord’s antisemitic views; his education in a public, secular school; his religious education in an establishment run by the Alliance Israelite Universelle; his bar mitzvah; his apprenticeship with a furniture upholsterer; the 1934 pogrom in Constantine; his move to Oran for work; his return to Constantine in 1939; his service in the French Army; his time in a forced labor camp, which he identifies as Gambetta; discrimination towards Jews that were recruited into the French Army; his participation in the liberation of Provence and occupation of Germany; the lack of work available to him and his brother in the post-war period; his immigration to mainland France; his arranged marriage in 1954; his parents and brothers’ immigration to Israel; and his second marriage to his current wife.
    Interviewee
    Mebourah P. Zerbib
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2011 September 08

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Zerbib, Mebourah, 1922-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Mr. Mebourah (Prosper) Zerbib in Bordeaux, France on September 8, 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 08:04:01
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