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Oral history interview with Sam Moreno

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.345 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0345

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    Oral history interview with Sam Moreno

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mr. Moreno's childhood in Paris, France; the changes he observed after the German occupation began; his time in the Jewish Boy Scouts (Eclaireurs Israélites de France - E.I.F.); and his father's deportation to Drancy and subsequently to Auschwitz. He describes avoiding arrest in 1942, living in hiding in a cellar with his mother and brother, acquiring false papers, and living in hiding on a farm in a town near Strasbourg. Mr. Moreno describes liberation by the American Army and returning to Paris to find his mother. He describes emigrating to the United States in 1948, his service in the army in Germany during the Korean War, and his life after the war.
    Interviewee
    Sam Moreno
    Date
    interview:  2000 September 27
    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
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Moreno, Sam--Interviews.
    Corporate Name
    Drancy (Internament camp)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Sam Moreno on September 27, 2000. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 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 08:44:50
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