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Oral history interview with Odette Cohen-Solal

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2012.348.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0682

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    Oral history interview with Odette Cohen-Solal

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Odette Cohen-Solal discusses her family background in a predominately Jewish neighborhood in Tunis, Tunisia; an Arab uprising in 1936 during which her family had to seek refuge; her schooling at Alliance Israélite Universelle and transfer to Lycée Armand Fallières where she was prevented from completing her baccalaureate exam as a result of the French declaring war; an event where the Jewish community was taken hostage in a synagogue by German forces; how her brothers hid from the Germans; one brother who ended up in a concentration camp; the banning of Jews from school; the liberation of Tunisia; English and American troops in Tunis along with journalists from the United States; names of Jewish American troops that the Jewish community hosted on major holidays; using her Arabic skills with the Crédit foncier d'Algérie et de Tunisie and then the Banque française de Commerce extérieur, which helped people put together dossiers for requests for loans and aid; her trip to Germany in 1949 where she felt hostility because she spoke French with her friends; her marriage to her husband and France’s refusal of allowing him citizenship because of his health; leaving Tunisia for France with her two children; and becoming the Director of the Banquefrançaise de Commerce extérieur on the mainland until she retired.
    Interviewee
    Odette Cohen-Solal
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2012 December 19

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Cohen-Solal, Odette.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Odette Cohen-Solal on December 19, 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 08:04:16
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