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Oral history interview with Rachelle Selzer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1993.A.0095.67 | RG Number: RG-50.163.0067

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    Oral history interview with Rachelle Selzer

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    Interview Summary
    Rachelle Selzer, born on November 4, 1923 in Czernowitz, Rumania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), describes her family moving to Bucharest, Romania in 1933; witnessing Jews being beaten; attending a Catholic school since public schools were not safe for Jews; her family fleeing to Paris, France in 1938;; attending a lycee; vacationing in Brittany in 1939 and staying there because her father was in danger; returning to Paris in the summer of 1940; her father being denounced in 1942; her attempts to get her father released; her father’s deportation to Drancy then Auschwitz; her father’s false ID papers with the name “Denise Dufour”; staying in a hotel with her mother in Juvisy for two years; her job at a boarding school; going to farms to get food and hitchhiking with German soldiers; liberation and returning to Paris; how her father’s stock certificates worthless after Russians took over Romania; trying to emigrate; going to the United States in May 1950 and settling in California; getting married in 1955; living in New York, NY and Washington, DC; and her career as a psychotherapist.
    Interviewee
    Rachelle Selzer
    Interviewer
    Gail Schwartz
    Date
    interview:  1988 November 03

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    3 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Selzer, Rachelle, 1923-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The interview with Rachelle Selzer was conducted on November 3, 1988 as part of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington's oral history project to document Washington, DC area survivor's experiences of the Holocaust. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the interview on May 26, 1993.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:19:57
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