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Oral history interview with Efraim Shiper

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.267 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0267

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    Oral history interview with Efraim Shiper

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Efraim Wolf Shiper, born on September 25, 1916 near the small town of Josefow by the Vistule (Józefów nad Wislą) in Poland, describes his Orthodox family; attending school in Ostrowiec, Poland; joining the Hechalutz youth movement; his family moving to Brussels, Belgium; becoming active with the Bund and Socialist movement in Belgium; the Jewish community; the entrance of the Germans into Belgium; obtaining fake documents; his job in the underground and the work of his wife, Claire; he and his wife managing to secret away his two younger sisters to a farm; his lack of connection with the Judenrat; the reaction of his father to his sons being in the underground; the newspaper they published in the underground; he and Claire being apprehended by the Gestapo; arriving in Malines (Mechelen), Belgium and being there for three months in 1943; making plans to jump off the train if put on a transport; successfully jumping off the train in Tongres (Tongeren), Belgium and going to Liege, Belgium; returning to Brussels; moving to Charleroi, Belgium; considering reversing his circumcision; Claire's abortion; how some people in the pro-Trotsky group volunteered to fight in Spanish Civil War; Claire's work as editor; liberation in August 1944; part of his family immigrating to Israel in 1948; he and Claire going to Uruguay and then Brazil; becoming active in the Zionist movement in the 1960s; immigrating to Israel in 1968; and their daughters’ acclimation to Israel.
    Interviewee
    Efraim Shiper
    Date
    interview:  1995 December 08
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Shiper, Efraim, 1916-
    Corporate Name
    World Hashomer Hatzair

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Efraim Shiper in Israel on December 8, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in May 31, 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:15:52
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