Herman D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1662) [videorecording] / interviewed by Allen M. Siegel and Elizabeth Jacob, June 24, 1990.

Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1990.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 28 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Herman D., a religious Protestant, who was born in 1909. He describes hearing antisemitic remarks in his youth; teaching in Swolgen, Netherlands; recognizing the danger of Nazism having read Mein Kampf; German invasion; joining the underground; hiding Allied pilots who had been shot down; offering to hide a Jewish friend and his family (they refused); he and his wife hiding two Jewish sisters for two and a half years; sensing danger and relocating the hidden Jews; arrest; separation from his wife; interrogations; transfer to a prison boat; forced labor digging anti-tank ditches; escaping with assistance from a farmer; and liberation by Canadian troops. Mr. D. discusses the constant danger to resisters and rescuers; his religious beliefs which informed his decisions; executions of many friends and colleagues by the Nazis; and avoiding traveling to Germany.

June 01, 2002

Herman D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1662). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Herman D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1662). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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