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Oral history interview with Maurice Blane

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.442 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0442

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    Oral history interview with Maurice Blane

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Maurice Blane was born in 1922 in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France to Polish-born immigrants who stayed in France after World War I. At 14 years old, Mr. Blane began an apprenticeship as a baker and pastry chef, and later worked as cook in Kijon. In 1942, Mr. Blane joined the French army, but was picked up by Gestapo and sent to Drancy concentration camp near Paris. In 1943 he was deported to Bruna Monowitz, a subcamp of Auschwitz, and later to the concentration camp Dora. Mr. Blane was on death march to Germany in February of 1945, where he was liberated by American troops. Mr. Blane returned to France, learned of his parents and siblings' deaths, and immigrated to the United States in 1947. He continued to work as a baker and pastry chef, and owned shops in New Jersey and San Francisco.
    Interviewee
    Maurice Blane
    Interviewer
    Sylvia Prozan
    Date
    interview:  1993 April 01
    interview:  1993 April 04
    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
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Blane, Maurice.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Maurice Blane on April 1, 1993 and April 4, 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 2002.
    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 08:45:17
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