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Jetse S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-481) interviewed by Sidney Elsner,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-481

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Jetse S., a Protestant, who was born in the Netherlands in approximately 1926 and raised in Hilversum. He recounts cordial relations with Jews; German invasion in 1940; rationing; his father warning Jewish friends in 1941 not to register; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father serving in a civil defense unit that was a front for the resistance; hiding a Jewish friend in their home for several months; his father obtaining false papers for his friend and arranging a hiding place in Amsterdam; receiving a postcard from him from Westerbork (he did not survive); seeking hiding places for Jews; avoiding forced labor by attending a technical school in Doredrecht for a year; hiding from forced labor with six friends; obtaining false papers; returning home to hide; liberation by Canadian troops; enlistment in the Dutch military in 1946; serving in Indonesia; completing his studies in 1955; emigration to the United States; and his career as a professor of sociology.
Author/Creator: S., Jetse, 1926?-
Published: Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1985
Interview Date: January 8, 1985.
Locale: Netherlands
Hilversum (Netherlands)
Dordrecht (Netherlands)
Cite As: Jetse S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-481). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hr., 30 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): False papers.
Rescuers.
Resistance.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Dutch. World War, 1939-1945--Children. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands. Netherlands. Hilversum (Netherlands) Dordrecht (Netherlands) Oral histories (document genres) S., Jetse,--1926?-

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/4293853
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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