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Oral history interview with Chaya Rachamim

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.344 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0344

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    Oral history interview with Chaya Rachamim

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Chaya Rachamim, born in Loosdrecht, Netherlands in 1925, describes growing up in a secular Jewish family; receiving a special education in a school that specialized in teaching about equality, democracy, and anti-militarism; meeting Jewish refugees from Germany; wondering if the Jews would still experience persecution if they had their own country; her introduction to the ideas of Zionism; being sent to Westerbork when the war broke out; her release and escaping further detention to Friesland, where she worked on a dairy farm under an assumed name; staying at the farm for the duration of the war; getting in contact with the Dutch underground, with which her older sister was affiliated; reuniting with her family after the war; her desire to immigrate to Palestine; learning more about dairy farming to be successful in Palestine; and in later life working to have the farmer who hid her during the war to be granted the title “Righteous Gentile.”
    Interviewee
    Chaya Rachamim
    Date
    interview:  1998 May 02
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    8 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Rachamim, Chaya, 1925-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Chaya Rachamim in Israel on May 2, 1998. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on June 10, 1999, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:16:19
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