"From Paris to New York between Family Memory and Novelistic Fiction" Oral testimony of Sylvie Weil
Extent and Medium
1 digital file, MPEG-4
Creator(s)
- Isabelle Pleskoff
Biographical History
Isabelle Pleskoff, head librarian at the Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme (Mahj), donated video recordings of Holocaust presentations and interviews produced by the Mahj to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2015. The interview was conducted on October 12, 2014 and the original French title is "De Paris à New York entre mémoire familiale et fiction romanesque avec Sylvie Weil."
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use. Requests for copies and use must be submitted to Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme.
People
- Weil, André, 1906-1998.
- Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.
- Isabelle Pleskoff
- Sylvie Weil
- Rashi, 1040-1105.
- Weil, Sylvie.
Subjects
- Jews--Persecutions--France.
- College teachers--United States.
- Children of Holocaust survivors.
- Paris (France)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- New York (N.Y.)
- Jews--Education.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- French literature.
- Jewish refugees--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--France.
- Jews--France--Paris.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Oral History