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Oral history interview with Jackie Martin

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.272 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0272

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    Oral history interview with Jackie Martin

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jackie Martin (née Sarah Ventura), born on April 16, 1921 in Istanbul, Turkey, discusses her childhood in Istanbul and Paris, France; incidents of antisemitism that she experienced while in school in France; her multiple attempts to flee Paris, both before and after the invasion of France by Nazi Germany, only to return soon after each time; the occupation of Paris between 1940 and 1945; her life in hiding with false papers with a non-Jewish woman; working as a seamstress for the Germans; the liberation of Paris; immigrating to the United States in 1946; and her life in the US.
    Interviewee
    Jackie Martin
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Date
    interview:  1994 August 29
    interview:  1994 October 10
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Martin, Jackie.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Jackie Martin on August 29, 1994 and October 10, 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in March 2001.
    Funding Note
    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 08:44:32
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