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Oral history interview with Frank J. Catz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.308 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0308

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    Oral history interview with Frank J. Catz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Frank J. Catz, born February 15, 1919 in Holland, Netherlands, discusses his childhood in Rotterdam, Netherlands; his parents, James and Louise Catz; his older brother Hans and younger brother Theo; being brought up without religion but knowing he was Jewish; hearing on the radio about events in Germany in the mid-1930s; his experiences in boarding school in Switzerland; going into the Dutch Army (Koninklijk Nederlandsch-Indisch Leger) in January 1939; his decision to transfer to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in 1939, where he would be able to leave the army and work; his life and work for the family spice business; learning of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands; being drafted to serve in the Dutch East Indies Army after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941; becoming a prisoner of war in 1942 and being sent to Japan, where he spent several years in prisoner-of-war camps in Nagasaki and Fukuoka; returning to the Netherlands after his liberation and the end of the war; learning about his family's experiences under occupation and of his parents' deaths in Auschwitz; his immigration to the United States in 1948; his marriage; moving with his family to San Francisco, CA; his family and career; and his widowhood and remarriage.
    Interviewee
    Frank J. Catz
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Elizabeth Ryan
    Date
    interview:  1997 July 02
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Catz, Frank J.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Frank J. Catz on July 2, 1997. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 2001.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:44:41
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