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Oral history interview with Gerard van de Beld

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.533 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0024

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    Oral history interview with Gerard van de Beld

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Gerard van de Beld, born in the Netherlands, discusses growing up near the Dutch German border; working on a farm in Germany; the pro-Nazi leaning of the family with whom he lived; witnessing Kristallnacht; returning to the Netherlands; joining the police; his orders to arrest Jews in Amsterdam; methods used to help Jews escape arrest; guarding transports to Westerbork, Vught, and Amersfoort; living conditions in the camps; anti-Jewish violence by Dutch guards; details of the transport process; his arrest after attempting to join the Resistance; being sent to Amersfoort and Vught; his transfer to Berlin to perform forced labor; and liberation.
    Interviewee
    Gerard van de Beld
    Date
    interview:  2005 January 29
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Beld, Gerard van 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 in association with the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. The interview was conducted on January 29, 2005 in The Netherlands for The Netherlands Documentation Project. The Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam assigned copyright and ownership of the interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on January 19, 2006. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in January 2006.
    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.
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    2023-11-16 08:59:21
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