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Oral history interview with Diny K. Adkins

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.20 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0020

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    Oral history interview with Diny K. Adkins

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Diny K. Adkins (née Dientje Kalisky), born on May 20, 1938, discusses her first years and family life in Bussum, Netherlands; hiding with her parents in an Amsterdam apartment and the confusion she felt; her lasting fear of sirens; separating from her parents and her brief time in a Bussum children’s home; a man who hid Jews, including herself and her parents, only to turn around and give most people up to the Germans for money; staying for a short time with an older couple from Indonesia; the story of her doll, Annika; hiding in a nun’s cottage from February 1943 to May 5, 1945 and the physical and mental abuse she endured; thinking her parents were dead; being periodically hidden at the home of the nun’s brother, who was physically and sexually abusive; being baptized and getting her First Communion; watching the American tanks arrive on May 5, 1945 and receiving a chocolate bar from a soldier; her struggles after the war to accept that her parents were alive and that she was not Catholic; the fate of other family members; suffering from nightmares and flashbacks; the adoption of her younger sister and birth of her younger brother; leaving the Netherlands in the late 1950s; her hospitalization and therapy to cope with her wartime experiences; her hopes for future generations; and the dangers of Holocaust denial and neo-Nazism. (At the very end, Dientje reads a poem written by her youngest daughter and a clay figure, a collage, and family photos are shown.)
    Interviewee
    Diny K. Adkins
    Interviewer
    Dientje Kalisky
    Date
    interview:  1992 May 18

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 videotape reels (1" Type C) : sound, color ; 1 in..

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    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Adkins, Diny K., 1938-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The South Carolina Council on the Holocaust and South Carolina Educational Television conducted the interview on May 18, 1992. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview in April 1995.
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    2023-11-16 08:21:09
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