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Oral history interview with Simone Monnier

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1989.67.61 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0061

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    Oral history interview with Simone Monnier

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Simone Monnier, born in 1913 in Switzerland while her family was vacationing, describes her life in France, where she taught at a school (École de Beauvallon) for maladjusted children in central France; being a protestant; attending Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute in Geneva, Switzerland; visiting schools in Europe for work and reading in English newspapers about the Nazi’s persecution of Jews in Germany; visiting the foreign Jewish children in Marseille and taking several children back with her; the evacuation of the school as the Germans approached and dispersing the children; the emotional aspects of her efforts and living through the war; taking in Jewish children and disguising them as Gentile students after France fell to the Germans in 1940; hiding the Jewish children in caves in the mountains at night; the roundup of Jews in the town; the town coming together to create fake papers for the children; being honored at Yad Vashem by these students years later; her life after the war and leaving the school in 1971; and still claiming that she is not a courageous person but one who only did what she had to do.
    Interviewee
    Simone Monnier
    Interviewer
    Gay Block
    Malka Drucker
    Date
    interview:  1988 July 10

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    Gay Block
    Provenance
    Gay Block and Malka Drucker produced the interview with Simone Monnier on July 10, 1988 for their book "Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust," Holmes & Meier, 1992, as well as their documentary film "They Risked Their Lives: Rescuers of the Holocaust." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch received the tapes of the interviews from Malka Drucker and Gay Block in March 1989.
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