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Jewish women in the Holocaust. Jews, Belgium--Africa. Mothers and daughters. World War, Jews--Rescue--Belgium. World War, Psychological aspects. World War, Underground movements--Belgium. Men--Personal narratives. Women--Personal narratives. Geographic Name Africa. Administrative History. Holder of Originals Gay Block. Legal Status Permanent Collection. Rights and Restrictions. Conditions on Access No restrictions on access. Conditions on Use No restrictions on use. Oral history interview with Gertruda Bablinska Oral History. Oral history interview with Gitta Bauer Oral History.
Oral history interview with Jan Brinkers, Willie Brinkers, and Andries van der Meer Oral History Jan Brinker, born in in Utrecht, Netherlands, describes his family and childhood; his family hiding Jews at the beginning of the war; getting married in September ; and finding out about what the Germans did to the Jews during the war. Oral history interview with Peotr Budnik Oral History Peotr Budnik, born in Poland, describes his childhood and Catholic family; witnessing Poland adopt increasingly antisemitic practices; seeing a Jewish ghetto built in his town in ; deciding to help hide a family of Jews, who he had been told to deliver to the ghetto; marrying a woman he had helped to hide and moving to Israel with her in ; delivering food and money to the families hiding the members of this Jewish family; having nightmares to this day about getting caught for helping Jews; the liberation of his town by Russian forces; and how he feels like he fits in well in Israel even though he is Catholic.
Oral history interview with Stephania P. Oral history interview with Adele Defarges Oral History Adele Defarges, born in in Crete, Greece, describes her childhood and family; growing up in a town with a small Jewish community; getting married at the age of 19 to a man with a Jewish sister and moving to Marceau; taking a young woman into hiding with her husband; joining an organization after the war that looked for people who hid Jews during the war; and creating a new life for herself after the war.
Oral history interview with Jan W. Oral history interview with Johannes de Vries Oral History Johan de Vries describes his life growing up in Friesland, Netherlands; becoming a coal miner in the southern part of the country in and working there for 16 years; he and his wife volunteering to take in a Christian child from Rotterdam for a year; agreeing to take in a Jewish boy in and later volunteering to take in about fifteen other Jewish people throughout the war; being warned by the police department and by neighbors when the Germans planned to make an inspection of their house; and Yad Vashem honoring him and his wife for their war-time efforts in Oral history interview with Mary Diaczok Oral History Mary Diaczok, born on February 2, in Bialo-Kenitza, Poland, describes her family and childhood; the small Jewish community in her village; attending church as a child; the Nazi invasion and taking a Jewish woman and her two children into hiding; the Germans forcing her to peel potatoes in a camp for the local Nazi soldiers; selling salt to make money; discovering what the Nazis were doing to the Jews in the ghettos and camps; and speaking about her experiences as a rescuer after the war.
Oral history interview with Maria Dovrovich Oral History Maria Dovrovich, born in Budapest, Hungary, describes her family and childhood; attending a modern art school when the war began in Europe; losing her family before the war; living with a Jewish family during the war; assisting Hungarian Jews by forging identification papers and by smuggling food into camps in and around Budapest; sharing food with her Jewish friends; the Jewish ghetto in Budapest; and immigrating to Israel after the war.
Oral history interview with Amfian Gerasimov Oral History Amfian Gerasimov, born in Russia, describes being raised in the Christian tradition but becoming interested in Judaism in ; having little contact with the Jews of his town as a child; getting married in and eventually having six children; becoming a Seventh Day Adventist; rescuing 14 people during the war; immigrating to Israel without his wife; and exploring his personal religious beliefs.
Oral history interview with Claudine Gilain Oral History. Oral history interview with Andree Geulen-Herscovici Oral History Andree Geulen-Herscovici describes her efforts to rescue Jewish children during the war; being raised as a Catholic but deciding that she did not believe in God at 12 years old; teaching in Brussels at the time the war began and many of her students being forced to leave school because they were Jewish; taking in Jewish children and hiding them when she was 20 years old; racing against the Gestapo to rescue children; choosing to take care of children rather than adults because they were easier to hide; keeping in touch with the children she rescued after the war; and her thoughts on talking about the war.
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Oral history interview with Emilie Guth and Hermine Orsi Oral History Emilie Guth, born in a small village in Alsace, France in , describes her family and childhood; working in a house that took care of war refugees in Marseilles in with the Unitarian Organization; her interactions with Jews coming through the town; increasing antisemitism around ; joining the resistance group, Combat, in ; hiding five people in her home for 22 months; helping to hide children in Chambon, France; receiving a medal in for rescuing Jews during the war; how she was not always aware of the great risk she was taking; staying in touch with the people she helped to rescue; becoming a nurse after the war; and continuing to practice the Protestant faith after the war.
Oral history interview with Fritz Heine Oral History Fritz Heine, born on December 6, in Hanover, Germany, describes his family and childhood; losing his mother during World War I; joining the Social Democratic Party in the s; becoming the Joint Secretary of the Social Democratic Party when he was 21 years old; the Social Democratic Party being outlawed in ; the organization of the suppressed political parties in Nazi Germany; being chief of propaganda for the SDP; how the SDP continued during the Nazi reign; how his main effort was protecting the party, although he helped some Jews; helping about to people to escape; his efforts translating German newspapers, telegraphs, etc.
Oral history interview with Fela Herman Oral History Fela Herman, born in November in Poland, describes her family and childhood; moving to Brussels in and not being able to return home after the Nazi invasion; getting married in ; joining the resistance movement and helping to free Jewish children; working with the Jewish Defense Committee; the death of her husband during the war and getting remarried in ; keeping in touch with many of the children who she rescued; having children in and ; and the reasons why she decided to rescue.
Oral history interview with Took Heroma Oral History Took Heroma, born on April 18, in Arnhem, Netherlands, describes why she chose to hide Jews during the war; her childhood and family; attending a school for social work in Amsterdam and graduating in ; taking a job teaching uneducated women; getting married to a doctor; participating with the resistance movement; working with the United Nations; valuing community work; staying in touch with the people she helped to rescue during the war; and the difficulty therapists have with Holocaust survivors.
Oral history interview with Christine Hilsum Oral History Christine Hilsum, born in in Enschede, Netherlands, describes her family and childhood; being raised in the Protestant tradition; getting married to a Jewish man in ; hearing about increasing levels of antisemitism; working as an au pair in England and France for a Jewish family; having two children before the war; being scared for her family after the war began; her husband having to wear a star after the war began and soon going into hiding; working with the underground movement distributing ration cards and taking people into hiding; having nightmares about her experiences during the war; and being honored by Yad Vashem.
Oral history interview with Evelyn Hoogsteen Oral History Evelyn Hoogsteen, born in in Wommels, Netherlands, describes her family; taking in Jews to hide during the war; keeping a radio in the home to find out about the war; immigrating to Canada in ; and wishing that more people could be taught about the Holocaust. Oral history interview with Antonin Kalina Oral History Antonin Kalina, born in Czechoslovakia on February 17, , describes his family and childhood; joining the Communist party early in his life; serving as a secretary in Buchenwald; helping people in the camp get new identities or lying for them when they were about to be killed; helping the children in the camp by keeping them together and getting special materials for them; life in the camp for the prisoners; and trying to help the children left at the camp at the war.
Oral history interview with Elizabeth Labruyere and Willem Labruyere Oral History Elizabeth Wilhelmina born in and Willem Labruyere born in describe their life growing up after in the Hague; helping two Jewish girls during the war; dealing with the first girl who came in and was very spoiled; asking this girl to leave because she was so careless and dangerous to the whole group; receiving Dora, a thirty-five year old woman from Vienna, in ; how Dora meant a great deal to them and eventually became part of the family; how they did not let their fears get in the way of saving a life; and how their belief in Christianity has served as more than just a way of thinking but also as a way of doing and being.
Oral history interview with Irene Landau Oral History Irene Landau with the help of her children describes her family and their decision to help hide Jews; growing up in Warsaw; meeting her future husband, who was married and had a family before the war; immigrating to Israel with her husband and his son in ; and her capture by the Germans during the war for attempting to smuggle food. Oral history interview with Gilbert Lesage Oral History. Oral history interview with Gertrude Luckner Oral History Gertrude Luckner talks about her activities against the Nazis prior to the war; her connection to Leo Baeck before the war; going to Bern, Switzerland, where she wrote letters to British and American diplomats on behalf of Jews attempting to flee Europe; her arrest in March and going into the camp system; her liberation in May and going into the British zone of Berlin; traveling around Europe after the war with a Catholic relief organization; earning a degree from the University of Frankfurt; visiting Israel frequently after the war; and her general hatred of the Nazis.
Oral history interview with Michael Mihaelov Oral History. Oral history interview with Gustav Mikulai Oral History. Oral history interview with Ivan Vranetic, Erna Vranetic, and Ella Schnitzer Oral History Ivan Vranetic, born in in Yugoslavia, describes his family and childhood; his traditional Catholic family; the occupation of his village by German troops; helping Jews during the war; and the liberation of the village by the partisans.
Oral history interview with Marguerite Mulder Oral History Marguerite Mulder, born in in Groningen, Netherlands, describes growing up in a Christian family; her interactions with the Jewish people in her town; taking a six-year-old into hiding in ; seeing German soldiers beat Jews in her town; her parents never refusing to hide a Jew; the murder of her mentally disabled brother in October ; the arrest of her parents and sisters in ; the deaths of her father and brother in ; working as a courier in the resistance movement; immigrating to the United States in ; her diagnosis with multiple sclerosis in ; her reflections on antisemitism that still exists today; and her family receiving medals from Yad Vashem for their efforts during the war to rescue Jews.
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Oral history interview with Paul Pensis Oral History. Oral history interview with Aliva Presman Oral History Aliva Presman was born in December while her parents were hiding in the small town of Koperchinze possibly Kopychyntsi. Oral history interview with Semmy Riekerk Oral History Semmy Riekerk, born on February 26, in the Netherlands, describes her family; attending a Lutheran school; starting a taxi business with her boyfriend; getting married in June ; attending school on the Jewish side of town; joining the underground movement with her husband; hiding Jews in her home; keeping a book that listed the names of everyone she helped to hide; the arrest of her husband during the war and finding out that he had died in Bergen-Belsen; getting married again after the war; receiving a medal from Yad Vashem in ; and her current work speaking out against antisemitism.
Oral history interview with Shoshana Roscynski and Stefan Roscynski Oral History Shoshana and Stefan Roscynski born in describe the mentality of the people who rescued Jews during the war; being taught to help others as children; Shoshana escaping the Vilmar ghetto after her parents were killed and going to a nearby village; meeting one another in ; the murder of Jews from a small town nearby called Nemenchini possibly Nemencine, Lithuania in ; building bunkers to hide Jews during the war; having their first child in and another in ; escaping from Russia and going to Israel; and getting little recognition as Christian rescuers until recently.
Oral history interview with Alice Schiffer Oral History Alice Schiffer, born on March 3, in Ghent, Belgium, describes her family; being raised as a Catholic; taking two Jewish girls into hiding and sending them to Catholic school; buying an apartment in Brussels and smuggling in food for Jews; meeting a political prisoner, Mademoiselle Adrach, who worked with the underground; being sent to jail for two days under suspicion of hiding Jews but soon getting released; deciding to hide more Jews in a barn; getting married to a Jewish man named Peter in ; and immigrating to the United States.
Oral history interview with Denise Siekieski Oral History Denise Siekieski describes growing up in southern France; hiding Jewish children with several of her neighbors; getting new identification papers for herself before the Germans entered Marseille and never registering as a Jew; the German occupation of northern France in November ; how at the age of 18 she was chief of scouting for her pluralistic resistance group; obtaining several identification cards to help Jews attempting to flee; receiving monetary help from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for hiding Jews; participating in the resistance movement; immigrating to Israel after the war; and her work to help commemorate those people who helped to rescue Jews during the war.
Oral history interview with Pelagia Springer Oral History Pelagia Springer born in a small village in Congress Poland describes growing up in Vilnius, Lithuania; witnessing acts of antisemitism against the local Jewish population; running a factory with a German and hiring Jews to keep them from being deported; taking a month-old child out of the ghetto to hide; and immigrating to Israel after the war. Oral history interview with Louisa Steenstra Oral History. Oral history interview with Berta Stenkes and John Stenkes Oral History Berta born in in Veenwouden, Netherlands and John Stenkes born in in North Bergen, Netherlands describe their families and growing up in the Netherlands; hiding people during the war; being raised as Baptists; getting married in ; the German invasion of Holland in ; Germans deporting Romanies at first; listening to the English radio station; hiding Jews in their home but having them live openly as Baptists; befriending a German soldier and how the soldiers were afraid of the SS too; surviving by buying goods and supplies off of the black market; being forced to hide five German soldiers in their home; and immigrating to Canada after the war.
Oral history interview with Tina Strobos Oral History Tina Strobos, born on May 19, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, describes her childhood in Amsterdam; being raised as an atheist and a Social Democrat; the German invasion in May and being asked to take in Jews to hide; studying psychiatry at the beginning of the war and having to continue her studies in secret in when she refused to sign a loyalty oath to the Germans; participating in the resistance; joining a sorority to help hide Jews and to get them money and forged passports; the treatment of Jews during the war; building a hiding place for Jews in her home; the terrible conditions experienced by the citizens of Amsterdam; her house being raided eight times by the Gestapo; the arrest of some of her friends for hiding Jews; learning about the death camps after the war; getting married after the war; and immigrating to the United States.
Oral history interview with Wilhelm Tarnawski and Mary Tarnawski Oral History Wilhelm born in and Mary Tarnawski born in describe their families; growing up in the same village in Galicia, Poland; Wilhelm being raised as a Catholic and Mary being raised as Jewish; getting married in even though marriages between Jews and Catholics were forbidden; hiding 18 Jews during the war, including six children; and immigrating to Israel in Oral history interview with Wladyslaw Wyrwa Oral History.
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Oral history interview with Klaas van Houten Oral History Klaas van Houten, born in in Groningen, Netherlands, describes her family; being raised as a Christian; attending university in Amsterdam and then opening a publishing business with a friend in ; driving in Berlin, Germany, in and witnessing the persecution of Jews; her memories of Kristallnacht; joining the resistance in and having Germans come after her; making false identity cards in her publishing house; beginning to take Jews into hiding in ; and staying in touch with some of the people she helped to rescue.
Oral history interview with Arie van Mansum Oral History. Oral history interview with Nienke Veenstra Oral History. Oral history interview with Arie Verduijn Oral History Arie Verduijn, born in Oudshoorn Alphen aan den Rijn , Netherlands, in , describes his family and childhood; the local Jewish community; attending Church growing up; becoming an electrical engineer; getting married to a teacher in ; taking in a Jewish family during the war; falsifying papers for the family; convincing his minister to help hide people; immigrating to Canada in ; and his reflections on how the war affected his life.
Oral history interview with Gerrit von Lochen Oral History Gerrit von Lochen, born in Winterswijk, Holland, in , describes his family; being raised as a Protestant; beginning army training in ; being in the Red Cross when Germany invaded the Netherlands and wanting to be in the infantry; his hiding Jews beginning in July ; his connections with the underground movement; being forced to house German troops in the last two weeks before liberation; and immigrating to Canada in Oral history interview with John H.
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