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Oral history interview with Marcelle Douglas

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.600 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0600

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    Oral history interview with Marcelle Douglas
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    Interview Summary
    Betty Douglas discusses her childhood in Paris, France; her Catholic religion; her education; and her career in design and couture at Lanvin in Paris; the occupation of France by Nazi Germany in 1940; her involvement in resistance activities until 1942; helping Jews obtain false papers; acting as an escort on trains; helping them flee to the south; her experiences in the resistance; witnessing murders by Nazi troops; her lack of understanding of anti-Jewish persecutions by the Nazis; her career in the fashion industry in England; and her immigration to the United States in 1962 with her American husband.
    Interviewee
    Marcelle Douglas
    Date
    interview:  2002 December 02
    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
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    Restrictions on access. Access to this interview is restricted to onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Requests for access outside the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
    Conditions on Use
    The use of this interview is restricted. The Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties retains copyright on the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project collection. Requests for use rights must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library.

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Marcelle Douglas on January 2, 2002. The interview was received by the Archives Branch in September 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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    2022-07-28 20:13:18
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