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Oral history interview with Anne-Marie Levain

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.236.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0767

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    Oral history interview with Anne-Marie Levain

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    Interview Summary
    Anne-Marie Levain, born on May 25, 1932 in Paris, France, describes her father, Paul Levain, who was Catholic and a political cartoonist for the weekly satirical newspaper, Le Canard enchainé; her Jewish Romanian mother, Etel (“Odette”) Sapira and her family; not interacting with the Jews in her community; her aunt posing for the sculptor, Bourdelle; her mother’s beauty parlor; attending a Montessori school in Versailles from the age of six to eight; being sent to public school in the 16th arrondissement then not attending school; her father making extra money by painting décor or posters for the music-halls and attending the shows with him; insisting that she wanted to be a dancer; being enrolled in all sorts of dance classes; her mother registering as a Jew and wearing the yellow star; her father making false identity papers for her mother; her mother’s parlor being turned over to an Aryan administrator; the arrest of her maternal grandmother; hearing rumors that people were treated well in Mathausen, where they believe her grandmother was sent; how after the war her mother volunteered at the Hotel Lutetia, where those who returned from deportation were sent first; accompanying her mother and being horrified by what she saw; her mother receiving compensation but being emotional affected by her experiences; her life in the theater; and her thoughts on her mother and grandmother.
    Interviewee
    Ann-Marie Levain
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2014 July 29

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    2 digital files : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Levain, Anne-Marie.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Anne-Marie Levain on July 29, 2014.
    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 08:04:44
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