- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Regine K., who was born in Hague, Netherlands in 1920, one of three children. She recounts her family's move to Brussels; vacationing with her maternal grandparents in Holland; her mother's death; her father's remarriage; studying to become a nurse and passing the exam; traveling with her father to Boulogne; German invasion; returning to Brussels; obtaining false papers; working as a hospital nurse; joining a resistance group; her family going into hiding; distributing resistance materials and trying to persuade German soldiers to desert; arrest; interrogation and torture; deportation to Malines; escaping from a train; briefly staying with her brothers in Brussels; hiding in many locations; working as a private nurse; continued participation in the resistance; arrest; incarceration in St. Gilles; brutal interrogations; transfer to Breendonk three months later, then Malines; abandonment by the Germans; returning to Brussels; marriage and divorce; and living in New York for several years with her second husband. Mr. K. discusses the importance of her father's financial support to her survival; the solidarity of her resistance group; one brother's denouncement and deportation (he did not survive); and her son's lack of interest in her experiences.
- Author/Creator
- K., Regine, 1920-
- Published
- Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1999
- Interview Date
- April 7 and 8, 1999.
- Locale
- Belgium
Netherlands
Hague (Netherlands)
Brussels (Belgium)
Boulogne-sur-Mer (France)
- Cite As
- Regine K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4193). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Thanassekos, Yannis, interviewer.
Rosenfeldt, Michel, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
