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Oral history interview with Alice Schiffer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1989.67.75 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0075

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    Oral history interview with Alice Schiffer

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Alice Schiffer, born on March 3, 1908 in Ghent, Belgium, describes her family; being raised as a Catholic; taking two Jewish girls into hiding and sending them to Catholic school; buying an apartment in Brussels and smuggling in food for Jews; meeting a political prisoner, Mademoiselle Adrach, who worked with the underground; being sent to jail for two days under suspicion of hiding Jews but soon getting released; deciding to hide more Jews in a barn; getting married to a Jewish man named Peter in 1948; and immigrating to the United States.
    Interviewee
    Alice Schiffer
    Interviewer
    Gay Block
    Malka Drucker
    Date
    interview:  1988 May 18

    Physical Details

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

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Schiffer, Alice, 1908-

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    Gay Block
    Provenance
    Gay Block and Malka Drucker produced the interview with Alice Schiffer on May 18, 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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