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Oral history interview with Jasmine Laskar

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.7.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0728

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    Oral history interview with Jasmine Laskar

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Madame Jasmine Laskar (née Teboul), born on February 28, 1929 in Bou Saâda, Algeria, describes being the ninth child of 11 children born to Albert Teboul and Nejama Nedjaoui; growing up speaking the local Arab dialect and French; her family’s status as French citizens; her father, who fought in WWI and was injured in the Battle of the Dardanelles Straits; her father’s wholesale business in Bou Saâda; living in a large home next to and above the family’s warehouse and offices; the Jewish community of Bou Saâda; attending the public schools, run by French civil servants; how she was about to pass her “certificate d’études” at the age of 13 in 1942 when she and other Jews were expelled from the school; never returning to school; her family’s practice of a very liberal form of reform Judaism; attending a synagogue on the rue de Rouville; the arrival of Jewish families expelled by the Italians from Libya; the American troops who were stationed in Bou Saâda; how her father’s business suffered; meeting her future husband, who was Algerian and a POW in Germany for four years; moving to Paris, France after their marriage in 1952; the violence against Jews in Bou Saâda, including the murder of her brother; helping most of her family immigrate to France and returning only once to Algeria to repatriate her brother’s coffin to the mainland; her husband’s business in the garment district of Paris; living in the Parisian suburb on Antony; and her entrepreneurial enterprises.
    Interviewee
    Jasmine Laskar
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2014 January 05
    Geography
    creation: Paris (France)

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Laskar, Jasmine, 1929-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Jasmine Laskar on January 5, 2014 in Paris, France.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:04:31
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