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Oral history interview with Tom de Booij

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.588 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0007

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    Oral history interview with Tom de Booij

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Tom de Booij, born in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) in 1925, discusses moving to the Netherlands in 1930; becoming politically aware throughout the 1930s; the German invasion; going into hiding instead of signing a loyalty oath; hiding in the woods; daily life in hiding; his betrayal, arrest, and interrogation; being sent to Amersfoort; living conditions in Amersfoort; anti-Jewish violence in the camp; his job in the radio barracks; being moved to a farm to perform forced labor as a result of his father’s influence; returning to hide at his parents’ home; the famine during the winter of 1944 and 1945; becoming active in the Resistance; and working to arrest collaborators after the war.
    Interviewee
    Tom de Booij
    Date
    interview:  2004 July 20
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Dutch
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Booij, Tom de.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak. The interview was conducted with Tom de Booij in the Netherlands for the Netherlands Documentation Project on July 20, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in May 2005.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    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 08:59:14
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