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Oral history interview with Emmanuel Racine

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.122 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0122

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    Oral history interview with Emmanuel Racine

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    Interview Summary
    Emmanuel Rassin, born in Moscow, Russia to a bourgeois family, describes his memories of the Russian Revolution; his family moving to Paris, France; attending a French boarding school; getting married; joining the army when he was 27 and going to the from for nine months in 1939; his family’s Jewish faith; belonging to the Jewish Zionist scouts led by Robert Gamzon; trying to escape to Morocco with other influential individuals from Bordeaux but being unable to do so; moving to Marseilles and joining the French resistance; the organization of the underground; arranging for forged papers for the combat group and helping Jews escape over the Pyrenees; working with monasteries to hide groups of children; going to Nice then Aiz le Bain; working with Gamzon and Levi to develop an escape route for groups of children into Switzerland; his sister being caught and her death in Mauthausen; how at the end of the war he worked on reuniting hidden children with their families; immigrating to Israel in 1951; and starting the Israel Oil Company.
    Interviewee
    Emmanuel Racine
    Date
    interview:  1992 June 11
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    4 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Emmanuel Racine in Israel on June 11, 1992, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:15:04
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