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Oral history interview with Lea Mendelovitz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.524 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0524

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    Oral history interview with Lea Mendelovitz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Ms. Mendelovitz's childhood in Montreuil, France and the family's flight to southern France in 1941. She describes her family's false papers, the time she spent living in hiding with a family on a farm in 1942, and their mistreatment of her. She describes her family's reunion in Lyon in 1943 as well as her father's arrest by the Gestapo in 1944 and his subsequent escape. Ms. Mendelovitz describes the family's return to Montreuil, encounters with concentration camp survivors, and her life after the war. Due to her young age at the time, many of Ms. Mendelovitz's recollections about larger events were related to her by family members, but she also describes personal events and her emotions from the wartime era.
    Interviewee
    Lea Mendelovitz
    Date
    interview:  2002 August 28
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Geographic Name
    Montreuil (France)
    Personal Name
    Mendelovitz, Lea.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Lea Mendelovitz on August 28, 2002. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in January 2003.
    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 08:45:34
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