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Oral history interview with Maurice Asa

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.617 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0617

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    Oral history interview with Maurice Asa

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Maurice Asa describes his childhood in Paris, France; the family's flight to Vichy in 1939 after the outbreak of World War II; their move to Nice in 1941after Jews were dispelled from Vichy France; the deportation of his parents and maternal grandmother to Auschwitz in 1943, where they perished; his sister's being hidden with an uncle; his experiences in hiding; the dangers undertaken on behalf by those who hid him; joining a resistance group in the spring of 1944; fighting as part of the Maquis until France's liberation; his post-war life, including working as an interpreter for the American Army; his reunion with his sister in Paris; his sister's immigration to England and then to the United States; his immigration to Australia and then the United States; and his life in New York and California.
    Interviewee
    Maurice Asa
    Interviewer
    Barbara Harris
    Evelyn Fielden
    Date
    interview:  1990 July 10
    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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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Maurice Asa on July 10, 1990. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in April 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 08:46:03
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