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Oral history interview with Clea Shiffer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.280 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0280

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    Oral history interview with Clea Shiffer

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Clea Shiffer, born in Germany, describes being the oldest of four children of Polish émigrés; her family moving to Belgium when she was an infant; attending school; working at age 14 to help support her family; joining the Bund; her father's arrest for debt resulting in his deportation to Germany; obtaining money to secure his return; the German invasion; one brother hiding in a monastery; anti-Jewish restrictions; her marriage in 1942; obtaining false papers; her sister's deportation; bribing officials to free an underground member from the Gestapo; her father's round-up and deportation; arrest and deportation to Malines with her husband; life in the camp for three months; reunion with her father; the camp underground preparing escapes from deportation trains; being deported with her father and husband; jumping from the train with her husband (her father was too ill to jump); receiving assistance from a priest; traveling to Liège, Belgium; returning to Brussels, Belgium with assistance from the underground; joining her mother and brother in hiding; aborting a pregnancy; one brother's flight to Switzerland; moving to Charleroi, Belgium with her husband and mother; working for an underground newspaper; visiting her brother in the monastery; liberation; returning to Brussels; the birth and premature death of her child; her brother's return; immigrating to Uruguay, then Brazil; participating in Wizo; immigrating to Israel, and the births of two daughters; her relief upon learning from a chance meeting with a woman who had been on their deportation train that her father had died on the train; testifying at a war crimes trial in Germany; and writing a book.
    Interviewee
    Clea Shiffer
    Date
    interview:  1995 November 16
    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
    Shiffer, Clea.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Clea Shiffer in Israel on November 16, 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.
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    2023-11-16 08:15:56
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