Liliane S. Dockett papers
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Liliane S. Dockett
Biographical History
Liliane S. Dockett (1934- ) was born Liliane Sophie Hirsch in Paris to Paul Hirsch and Nety Hammer Hirsch. Her sister Jacqueline was born in the month before the German invasion of France. Her maternal grandfather, David Hammer, was a furrier whose ability to supply the German army with vests protected the family from arrest for eighteen months. The girls spent part of the war hiding under false identities in a village near Beauvais, their mother under a false identity in Paris, and their maternal grandparents behind a false wall at their fur workshop. Dockett immigrated to the United States in 1947 with her mother and sister.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Liliane S. Dockett donated Liliane S. Dockett collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 and 2008.
Scope and Content
The Liliane S. Dockett papers consist of identification papers, a memoir, photographs, and a store sign documenting Dockett’s childhood experiences as part of a Jewish family in occupied France.Identification papers include identification cards for Nety Hirsch (made in the name “Sarah Hirsch”) and her mother, Rose Hammer, and a photograph of David Hammer’s 1926 French naturalization certificate authorized by Pierre Laval. Dockett’s seven page memoir describes her childhood experiences during World War II, being protected from arrest and then going into hiding, the fates of some of her Jewish school friends, and immigrating to the United States. Photographs depict Rose Hammer wearing the yellow star and Dockett with her mother and sister. The store sign reads “Jüdisches Geschäft” and “Entreprise Juive” and had been placed on Liliane Dockett’s grandfather’s furrier business.
System of Arrangement
The Liliane Dockett papers are arranged as a single series: I. Liliane Dockett papers, 1926-1998 (bulk 1942)
People
- Liliane S. Dockett
Subjects
- Paris (France)
- Holocaust survivors.
- Hiding places--France.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Jews--France--History--20th century.
- Fur workers--France--Paris.
- Beauvais (France)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Children.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document