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Oral history interview with Jules Hartogh

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.916 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0916

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    Oral history interview with Jules Hartogh
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    Interview Summary
    Jules Hartogh, a non-Jewish member of the Dutch resistance movement, discusses his childhood in Amsterdam and Utrecht, Netherlands; his first encounters with antisemitism in 1936 when he was a teenager; his friendship with a Jewish boy; his memories of the occupation of the Netherlands by Nazi Germany; witnessing roundups of Jews in Amsterdam; his activities in the resistance, along with other family members, including creating false identification cards for Jews, finding safe homes, and smuggling Jews out of Holland; the betrayal of his underground group; being arrested by the Gestapo in 1943; going into hiding after his release; signing up for labor in Germany; changing his mind, escaping the transport, and returning to Holland; fleeing Holland for Sweden and then for England, where he joined the British Army; arriving at Bergen-Belsen the day after liberation and the trauma of that experience; and his post-war military service in Indonesia.
    Interviewee
    Jules Hartogh
    Date
    interview:  1991 April 23
    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
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    Restrictions on access. Access to this interview is restricted to onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Requests for access outside the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
    Conditions on Use
    The use of this interview is restricted. The Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties retains copyright on the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project collection. Requests for use rights must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Hartogh, Jules.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Jules Hartogh on April 23, 1991. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in February 2005.
    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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    2023-08-25 08:51:10
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