Oral history interview with Henri Vles
Extent and Medium
3 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, and it was conducted in the Netherlands for the Netherlands Documentation Project on July 12, 2005. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in March 2006.
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
Restrictions on use. The interview is intended for education and research and that use for broadcast television requires a separate consent agreement.
People
- Henri Vles
- Vles, Henri.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Rotterdam (Netherlands)
- Identification cards--Forgeries--Netherlands.
- Jews--Persecutions--Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Dutch.
- Jews--Rotterdam--Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Netherlands.
- Netherlands.
- Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Netherlands.
- Holocaust survivors--Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Netherlands.
- Altruism--Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Oral History