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Oral history interview with Remond Heiman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.329 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0329

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    Oral history interview with Remond Heiman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Raymond Hegman, born in Strasbourg, France in 1919, describes the shoe store that his family owned; how his family was traditional but not religious; attending public school; his family’s evacuation from Alsace when the Germans invaded; going with his family to their vacation home in Vosges and then settling in Montpellier; staying in southern France for the majority of the war; working with the Jewish Resistance and the French Resistance procuring false baptismal certificates, passage into Switzerland, and hiding places for Jewish refugees; his parents’ escape into Switzerland and the hiding of his sister with a non-Jewish family in another part of France; the young people with whom he worked and describes their reasons for being interested in these activities; studying the Torah every Shabbat evening and listening to the Radio Libre; working for a Jewish relief organization and guarding Axis prisoners after liberation; the survival of all of his immediate family after the war; his parents’ return to Strasbourg; and being shocked by the magnitude of what had happened to those who had been deported to the East.
    Interviewee
    Remond Heiman
    Date
    interview:  1998 January 14
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    10 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Heiman, Remond, 1919-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Remond Heiman in Israel on January 14, 1998. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on June 10, 1999, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    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 08:16:13
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