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Herman D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1662) interviewed by Allen M. Siegel and Elizabeth Jacob,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1662

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Herman D., a religious Protestant, who was born in 1909. He describes hearing antisemitic remarks in his youth; teaching in Swolgen, Netherlands; recognizing the danger of Nazism having read Mein Kampf; German invasion; joining the underground; hiding Allied pilots who had been shot down; offering to hide a Jewish friend and his family (they refused); he and his wife hiding two Jewish sisters for two and a half years; sensing danger and relocating the hidden Jews; arrest; separation from his wife; interrogations; transfer to a prison boat; forced labor digging anti-tank ditches; escaping with assistance from a farmer; and liberation by Canadian troops. Mr. D. discusses the constant danger to resisters and rescuers; his religious beliefs which informed his decisions; executions of many friends and colleagues by the Nazis; and avoiding traveling to Germany.
Author/Creator: D., Herman, 1909-
Published: Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1990
Interview Date: June 24, 1990.
Locale: Netherlands
Swolgen (Netherlands)
Cite As: Herman D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1662). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Siegel, Allen M., interviewer.
Jacob, Elizabeth, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 28 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Antisemitism Prewar.
Postwar experiences.
Aid by non-Jews.
Rescuers.
Subjects: Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Dutch. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Forced labor. Husband and wife. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. Escapes. Swolgen (Netherlands) Oral histories (document genres) D., Herman,--1909-

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/4284012
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
This page:: http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4284012

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