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Oral history interview with Myriam Blitz-Leiser

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.030.0285

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    Oral history interview with Myriam Blitz-Leiser

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Myriam Blitz-Leiser, born in Radomysl Wielki, Poland on September 16, 1910, describes growing up in a Jewish family; moving with her father to Antwerp, Belgium, where she married and had a daughter; becoming active in the underground movement in Antwerp by hiding Jews and helping others cross the border to Switzerland; escaping with her daughter to Nice, France but being caught there; hiding her daughter in a children's home in France; her deportation to Gurs, an internment camp in France; returning to Nice and then escaping with her daughter to Aix-les-Bains, France; and returning to Antwerp after the war.
    Interviewee
    Myriam Blitz-Leiser
    Interviewer
    Randy M. Goldman
    Date
    interview:  1994 September 29
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    4 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. The interviewee's daughter must be notified if the interview is used for exhibition or any other public program.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Blitz-Leiser, Myriam.
    Corporate Name
    Gurs (Concentration camp)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Randy M. Goldman, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Myriam Blitz-Leiser on September 29, 1994.
    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 08:01:49
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