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Oral history interview with Litza Guttierès

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2012.346.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0680

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    Oral history interview with Litza Guttierès

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Litza Guttierès, born in 1928 in Tunis, Tunisia, discusses her background as a Sephardic Jew in a small isolated community of 3,000; the possibility of being part of the Jews of Spain, Marranos/Anusims, who hid their Jewish roots after the Inquisition; attending an Italian school with her sister Elaine until ant-Jewish laws went into effect; transferring to a French school after being tutored in French; not experiencing any antisemitism at the Italian school; an altercation after a girl called her antisemitic terms at the French school; being allowed to remain in the French schools despite Vichy laws and the German Occupation; her French school being hit by Allied bombs and the excitement that the Allies were coming; the liberation of Tunisia; English troops entering Tunis; moving to Paris, France in 1948 after passing her baccalaureate exam and starting medical school; working in the psychiatry field, moving to Geneva, Switzerland, and returning to France 30 years later.
    Interviewee
    Litza Guttierès
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2012 September 25

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Guttierès, Litza, 1928-
    Corporate Name
    Great Britain. Army

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Litza Guttierès on September 25, 2012 in Paris, France. 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 08:04:15
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