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Oral history interview with Eline Hoekstra-Dresden

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.A.0449.5 | RG Number: RG-50.090.0005

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    Oral history interview with Eline Hoekstra-Dresden

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Eline Hoekstra Dresden, born on January 4, 1923 in the Hague, Netherlands, discusses being the youngest of four Jewish children; her family’s move to Utrecht when she was two years old; her parents taking in two Jewish refugee children from Germany; the German invasion of the Netherlands; the German authorities forcing the two refugee children to leave Eline’s family; graduating from high school in 1940; being expelled from college in 1941 because of the anti-Jewish measures; the seizure of her family’s home; giving birth to her son Daniel in 1942; hiding Daniel with a non-Jewish family; being deported with her parents in April 1943 to an internment camp called De Schaffelaar in Barneveld, Netherlands; the mass deportation of inmates to Westerbork transit camp; enduring squalor, disease, hard and dehumanizing labor, and starvation alongside her parents at Westerbork until the camp was liberated by Canadian troops on April 12, 1945; reuniting with her son; and migrating to Oregon in 1958.
    Interviewee
    Eline Hoekstra-Dresden
    Interviewer
    Erik Harper
    Date
    interview:  1994 April 14

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Hoekstra-Dresden, Eline.

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    Oregon Holocaust Resource Center
    Provenance
    Erik Harper of the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center conducted the interview with Eline Hoekstra on April 14, 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center on October 3, 1994.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:10:57
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