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Oral history interview with Marc Alimi

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.237 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0641

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    Oral history interview with Marc Alimi

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Marc Alimi, born in 1936 in Batna, Algeria, discusses growing up in a French speaking family; learning Arabic at school; his parents and grandfather; attending a secular public school in Batna until the Jews were expelled during the war; his father and his uncle being mobilized in 1939; his father’s return home; his father working under a false identity in Constantine; experiencing antisemitism; the Vichy regime constructing a concentration camp at Timgad; his father being sent with his family to Bordj Bouarreridj, then to Bouira for work; failing his baccalaureate; working for the Postal, Telegraphic, and Telephone services starting in 1954; working at a house painting business; becoming a teacher; being protected from the attacks against non-Muslims because of his extraordinary kindness to the local children; working until 1962, when he was given a teaching job in Bordeaux, France; and becoming a leader of Bordeaux’s Jewish community.
    Interviewee
    Marc Alimi
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2011 September 12

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Alimi, Marc, 1936.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Mr. Marc Alimi in Bordeaux, France on September 12, 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 08:04:02
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