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Oral history interview with Jo Wildschut

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.590 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0009

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    Oral history interview with Jo Wildschut

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jo Wildschut, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, discusses becoming a Jehovah’s Witness in the 1930s; her evangelization work; providing aid to Jewish neighbors during the German occupation; being arrested for her religious beliefs; being sent to the concentration camp Vught; daily life in the camp; violence against the prisoners; continuing to evangelize; being sent for forced labor on a farm near Dachau; her transfer to Ravensbrück; her first impressions of Ravensbrück; liberation; and her return home after the war.
    Interviewee
    Jo Wildschut
    Date
    interview:  2004 July 21
    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
    Wildschut, Jo.

    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 Jo Wildschut in the Netherlands for the Netherlands Documentation Project on July 21, 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 08:59:15
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