Overview
- Interview Summary
- Frank Gryzenhout (né Franciscus Grijzenhout), born in 1925 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, discusses his early life; his family; growing up in a mixed Protestant and Catholic family; antisemitism in Amsterdam; the arrest of Jewish people; his role in the Dutch resistance; derailing German trains; post-war Dutch reprisals against collaborators; seeing a Jewish prison camp in the center of Amsterdam; being arrested for his role in the resistance; living conditions in Amersfoort, Vught, and Dachau; bartering cigarettes for food in camps; the different types of prisoners; being abused by Kapos at Vught; liberation; returning home; reuniting with his parents; being called up for service in the Dutch Army; leaving Holland in 1956 because of his fears of a third world war; contacting a cousin in Salt Lake City to obtain sponsorship; immigrating to the United States with his family; his relationship with his brother; and his life in Utah.
- Interviewee
- Frank Gryzenhout
- Interviewer
- Elise Ahrens
Patrick Ahrens - Date
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interview:
2011 February-2011 August
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Elise Ahrens
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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2 DVD : MPEG-2.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Antisemitism--Netherlands--Amsterdam. Children of interfaith marriage. Homosexuality. Jews--Persecutions--Netherlands. Kapos. Men--Personal narratives. Political prisoners--Netherlands. Political prisoners--Netherlands. Prisoners--Abuse of--Netherlands. Railroad trains--Netherlands. Sabotage--Netherlands. War criminals--Netherlands. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Netherlands. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Dutch. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Geographic Name
- Amsterdam (Netherlands) Holland (Netherlands : Province) Netherlands--Armed Forces. Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. United States--Emigration and immigration. Utah.
- Personal Name
- Gryzenhout, Frank, 1925-2011.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Elise Ahrens donated a copy of her oral history interview with Frank Gryzenhout to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on December 21, 2012. The interview was conducted in February and August 2011.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:29:57
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