Overview
- Interview Summary
- Arie Legerstee, born on February 7, 1922 in Mijnsheerenland, Netherlands, describes his parents; being the oldest of six children; being raised a devout protestant in the Dutch Reform Church; attending a two room Christian school; reading the Bible after meals on Sundays; the German invasion of Holland on May 10, 1940; witnessing the parachute troops landing; graduating from the Ambught School as a master machinist in the spring of 1940; being selected for deportation to work for the Germans; being the first person deported from Mijnsheerenland; his brother, Jan, who went into hiding; being taken to Eberswalde, Germany, where he worked for almost three years doing forced labor; his work at the Franz Seiffert Factory producing munitions for the Nazis; the evacuation of the factory as the Russian forces approached and escaping with his future wife and another couple; and hiding for several weeks until they intercepted the Russians.
- Interviewee
- Arie Legerstee
- Interviewer
- Rev. Dr. Dirkje F. Legerstee
- Date
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interview:
1996 July 23
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dirkje F. Legerstee
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 DVD.
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- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Escapes. Forced labor--Germany. Hiding places. Holocaust survivors. Machinists. Protestants--Netherlands--Mijnsheerenland. Protestants--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Dutch. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Eberswalde (Germany) Mijnsheerenland (Netherlands) Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Personal Name
- Legerstee, Arie, 1922-
- Corporate Name
- Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Dirkje F. Legerstee donated the oral history interview with Arie Legerstee to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on March 27, 2017. The interview was conducted on July 23, 1996.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:40:57
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