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Oral history interview with Martha Jonas

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.840 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0840

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    Oral history interview with Martha Jonas

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Martha Jonas discusses her childhood in Cologne, Germany; the increased antisemitism she and her family experienced after the start of the Nazi regime; her father's arrest and imprisonment in Dachau; her family's flight to Amsterdam; life in Amsterdam; her marriage in 1942, when she was forced to walk to her wedding because Jews were not allowed to take public transportation; her and her husband being imprisoned the day after the wedding; being deported to Westerbork, where they were separated; how both her and her husband both remained at Westerbork until the end of the war, when they were liberated by Canadian troops; working for the Dutch military after the war; moving first to Sweden and then to the United States; the fate of her family members during the Holocaust.
    Interviewee
    Martha Jonas
    Interviewer
    Nancy Magidson
    Date
    interview:  1997 February 19
    interview:  1997 March 13
    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
    Extent
    3 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Geographic Name
    Amsterdam (Netherlands)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Martha Jonas on February 19, 1997 and March 13, 1997. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in December 2003.
    Funding Note
    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 08:47:08
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