Oral history interview with Adriaan van As
Extent and Medium
5 videocassettes (DVCAM), sound, color ; 1/4 in.
Biographical History
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 Adriaan van As in the Netherlands for the Netherlands Documentation Project on July 19, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in May 2005.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- As, Adriaan van.
- Adriaan van As
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands.
- Rotterdam (Netherlands)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Netherlands.
- Delfzijl (Netherlands)
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Netherlands.
- Netherlands.
- Executive departments
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Netherlands.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands.
- Concentration camp escapes--Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Dutch.
- Ambon (Indonesia)
- Altruism--Netherlands.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Netherlands.
Genre
- Oral History