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Oral history interview with Peter Kooy

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.848 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0848

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    Oral history interview with Peter Kooy

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mr. Kooy's childhood in Amsterdam, Holland, and his memories of the invasion of Holland by Germany and life under the Nazi occupation. Mr. Kooy describes his father's activities with the Free Groups, a resistance group, and how his family hid several people, Jewish and non-Jewish, during the war years. He describes the structure and actions of the various resistance groups working in Holland, the liberation of Holland, and his and his family's immigration to the United States in 1950, sponsored by the family of one of the children his family had hidden.
    Interviewee
    Peter Kooy
    Date
    interview:  1990 November 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
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kooy, Peter--Interviews.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Peter Kooy on November 13, 1990. 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 08:47:11
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