Mireille Taub

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Mireille Taub arrived in the United States in August 1940, having escaped war torn
France. Too young to remember those harrowing times, she was told that they left
Paris on the last train to depart down the Atlantic coast towards Spain as the
French government negotiated the “best possible” surrender terms. The train was
bombed; her family tried to walk to safety. Luck, miracles, wonder of wonders, her
family was able to obtain a ride offered by an American consulate officer. They
travelled through the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean coast of France and were
able to obtain a visa to travel through Spain, into Portugal. That was followed by a
dangerous, complicated sea voyage across the submarine infested North Atlantic.
Because of her personal experiences and knowledge of family stories that occurred
in that time period, as well as in memory of her husband, David Taub (a hidden child
during WW2 in France,) Mireille volunteers as an Educator, Survivor Speaker,
Docent and Chair of the David Taub Reel Upstanders Film Series at the Holocaust
Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County.
Mireille is a former literacy specialist at Dodd Middle School and the Freeport
Leo F. Giblyn International School and an adjunct professor at Nassau Community
College. In addition to the two writing groups to which she belongs, she also serves
as Recording Secretary for the Long Island Arts Council in Freeport, chairing a
variety of programs.