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Oral history interview with Marie Tacquet

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1989.67.84 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0084

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    Oral history interview with Marie Tacquet

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Marie Tacquet, born in December 1898 in Luxembourg, describes her family and childhood; being raised as a Catholic; her memories of World War I and studying at a Catholic school in Luxembourg; getting married when she was 20 years old; her husband being an officer in the Belgian army; moving to Düsseldorf, Germany in the 1920s; renting a castle from nuns in 1942 and taking in Jews to hide; being in charge of providing food and clothes to the children hiding in the castle; having a school in the castle; the liberation by American troops; and reuniting every year with the children she hid.
    Interviewee
    Marie Tacquet
    Interviewer
    Gay Block
    Malka Drucker
    Date
    interview:  1988 March 08

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    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 Marie Tacquet on March 8, 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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