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Oral history interview with Jacob Oversloot and Martha Oversloot

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1989.67.68 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0068

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    Oral history interview with Jacob Oversloot and Martha Oversloot

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    Interview Summary
    Jacob Oversloot (born May 30, 1906) describe his family; living in Rotterdam, Netherlands; his parents transporting soldiers in their boat during World War I; his father’s death in 1916; working for his uncle when he was a teenager; finding a job farming beets for sugar; working in a department store in Amsterdam, Netherlands; being sent to work in Demmerik, Netherlands, where he began a family; the beginning of the war; taking in Jews to hide during the war; and immigrating to the United States in 1951; and his life in California.
    Martha Oversloot describes her immigration to the United States in 1939 with her husband, who was Jewish; not raising her two children Jewish; living in Holland before emigrating; and her life now with Jacob.
    Interviewee
    Martha Oversloot
    Jacob Oversloot
    Interviewer
    Gay Block
    Malka Drucker
    Date
    interview:  1987 June 05

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    Gay Block
    Provenance
    Gay Block and Malka Drucker produced the interview with Jacob and Martha Oversloot on June 5, 1987 for their book "Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust," Holmes & Meier, 1992, as well as their documentary film "They Risked Their Lives: Rescuers of the Holocaust." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch received the tapes of the interviews from Malka Drucker and Gay Block in March 1989.
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