Margaret Collins Weitz Papers Documents

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  Femmes: 30 Notable Contemporary French Women: transcript of interview with Jacqueline de Romilly (English version)

  Margaret Collins Weitz and Jacqueline de Romilly

  This is a transcript of one of the interviews conducted by Margaret Collins Weitz for her project, Femmes: 30 Notable Contemporary French Women (1995).

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  Sisters in the Resistance: transcript of interview with Anne-Marie Bauer (French version)

  Margaret Collins Weitz and Anne-Marie Bauer

  This is a transcript of one of the interviews conducted by Margaret Collins Weitz for her project, Femmes: 30 Notable Contemporary French Women (1995).

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  Sisters in the Resistance: transcript of interview with Lise Lesevre (French version)

  Margaret Collins Weitz and Lise Lesevre

  This is a transcript of one of the interviews conducted by Margaret Collins Weitz for her project, Femmes: 30 Notable Contemporary French Women (1995).

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  Sisters in the Resistance: France Pejot, draft book section edited by Charlotte Rampling, undated

  Margaret Collins Weitz and France Pejot

  This is a draft book chapter from Margaret Collins Weitz's Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945 (1995).

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  Sisters in the Resistance: transcript of interview with Hélène Renal (English version)

  Margaret Collins Weitz and Hélène Renal

  This is a transcript of one of the interviews conducted by Margaret Collins Weitz for her book, Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945 (1995). French résistante and journalist Hélène Rénal discusses her pre- and post-war life, focusing mainly on her participation in the French Resistance during WWII. The interview starts with what it was like to grow up in a bourgeois, Jewish background in 1930s Paris, France. Then Rénal describes her involvement in the French Resistance in Savoie, including her early work distributing flyers and making false identity cards; the challenges of coding and decoding telegrams in the “Transmission-Action” information network; how her association with her husband, who was head of a Resistance network, resulted in her arrest; the story of her interrogation and her husband’s interrogation by Klaus Barbie; her covert travels between Savoie and Paris by train as secretary to the head of the network; her imprisonment at Ravensbrück, a concentration camp in Germany; her time immediately after the war in the occupied territory of Tyrol, Austria. She also discussed aspects of her post-war life including writing a book with a group of friends from Ravensbrück; and how she became a journalist, working at Elle and Marie-Claire. She ends by reflecting on the path of her life and the certain people that influenced her and gave her opportunities, including Michel Lévy who worked at the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies.

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  Sisters in the Resistance:transcript of interview with Hélène Renal (French version)

  Margaret Collins Weitz and Hélène Renal

  This is a transcript of one of the interviews conducted by Margaret Collins Weitz for her book, Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945 (1995). French résistante and journalist Hélène Rénal discusses her pre- and post-war life, focusing mainly on her participation in the French Resistance during WWII. The interview starts with what it was like to grow up in a bourgeois, Jewish background in 1930s Paris, France. Then Rénal describes her involvement in the French Resistance in Savoie, including her early work distributing flyers and making false identity cards; the challenges of coding and decoding telegrams in the “Transmission-Action” information network; how her association with her husband, who was head of a Resistance network, resulted in her arrest; the story of her interrogation and her husband’s interrogation by Klaus Barbie; her covert travels between Savoie and Paris by train as secretary to the head of the network; her imprisonment at Ravensbrück, a concentration camp in Germany; her time immediately after the war in the occupied territory of Tyrol, Austria. She also discussed aspects of her post-war life including writing a book with a group of friends from Ravensbrück; and how she became a journalist, working at Elle and Marie-Claire. She ends by reflecting on the path of her life and the certain people that influenced her and gave her opportunities, including Michel Lévy who worked at the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies.

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  Sisters in the Resistance: draft books section about Catherine Roux

  Margaret Collins Weitz and Catherine Roux

  This is a draft book chapter from Margaret Collins Weitz's Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945 (1995).

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  Sisters in the Resistance: transcript of interview with Catherine Roux, part 1 (French version)

  Margaret Collins Weitz and Catherine Roux

  This is a transcript of one of the interviews conducted by Margaret Collins Weitz for her book, Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945 (1995).

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  Sisters in the Resistance: transcript of interview with Catherine Roux, part 2 (French version)

  Margaret Collins Weitz and Catherine Roux

  This is a transcript of one of the interviews conducted by Margaret Collins Weitz for her book, Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945 (1995).

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  Sisters in the Resistance: transcript of interview with Anne-Marie Soucelier (French version)

  Margaret Collins Weitz and Anne-Marie Soucelier

  This is a transcript of one of the interviews conducted by Margaret Collins Weitz for her project, Femmes: 30 Notable Contemporary French Women (1995).

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  Sisters in the Resistance: transcript of interview with Evelyne Sullerot (English version)

  Margaret Collins Weitz and Evelyne Sullerot

  This is a transcript of one of the interviews conducted by Margaret Collins Weitz for her book, Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945 (1995).

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  Sisters in the Resistance: transcript of interview with Evelyne Sullerot (French version)

  Margaret Collins Weitz and Evelyne Sullerot

  This is a transcript of one of the interviews conducted by Margaret Collins Weitz for her book, Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945 (1995).

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  Sisters in the Resistance: transcript of interview with Colette Audry (English version)

  Margaret Collins Weitz and Colette Audry

  This is a transcript of one of the interviews conducted by Margaret Collins Weitz for her book, Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945 (1995).