Anita B., Hetty V., and Anna S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1795
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Anita B., Hetty V., and Anna S.. Anita B. was born in the Hague, Netherlands in 1929. She recalls German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; confiscation of their home; moving to a Jewish old age home; forced relocation to Amsterdam; attending a Jewish school; round-ups; her parents' decision in 1943 that they would go into hiding; her parents' and sister's departures; being taken by Anna S., her camp counselor, to hide with a non-Jewish family in the south; kind treatment by her foster parents; and liberation by British and United States troops in September 1944. She notes her parents were caught and deported to Westerbork; their liberation; and reuniting with her sister and parents in May 1945.

Extent and Medium

2 videocassettes

Conditions Governing Access

This testimony is open with permission.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • V., Hetty, -- 1918-
  • S., Anna, -- 1921-
  • B., Anita, -- 1929-

Corporate Bodies

  • Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands.
  • Foster parents.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Dutch.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Video tapes.
  • Women.
  • Hiding.
  • False papers.
  • Child survivors.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Forced labor.
  • Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Resistance.
  • Rescuers.

Places

  • Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  • Hague (Netherlands)
  • Switzerland.
  • Utrecht (Netherlands)
  • Chile.
  • Sweden.
  • Santiago (Chile)
  • Netherlands.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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