Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Betsy H., who was born in Hoogeveen, Netherlands, in 1917, the oldest of four children. Mrs. H. tells of working in a Jewish home for deprived children; her indifference regarding German events; German invasion; living with a Jewish family in Amsterdam; the last contact with her family (they were all deported); hiding in Rijnsburg; meeting her future husband who was hiding to avoid forced labor; joining a resistance group; carrying messages under a false name throughout the country; and witnessing the daily heroism of ordinary people. She describes her arrest with the resistance group; disposing of the documents she had been carrying to shield the identities of resistance members thus saving their lives; transport through Vught to Ravensbrück; forced labor in Dachau; liberation; returning through Switzerland and Paris to the Netherlands; and marriage in 1945. She discusses her affection for friends she made in Dachau; their annual meetings; her role in the resistance; and reluctance to talk about the past with her daughter.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1989
- Interview Date
- August 8, 1989.
- Locale
- Netherlands
Hoogeveen (Netherlands)
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Rijnsburg (Netherlands) - Cite As
- Betsy H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1277). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 44 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hiding.
False papers.
Aid by non-Jews.
Resistance.
Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands. Friendship. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Forced labor. Netherlands. Hoogeveen (Netherlands) Amsterdam (Netherlands) Rijnsburg (Netherlands) Oral histories (document genres) H., Betsy,--1917- Dachau (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Vught (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1083409
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:46:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1083409
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