Project 'Long shadow of Sobibor' Interview 07 Mary Richheimer-Leyden van Amstel Project 'Late gevolgen van Sobibor'
Web Source
title=Online Interview from the website 'Long Shadow of Sobibor'; URI=http://www.longshadowofsobibor.com./interview/mary-richheimer-leijden-van-amstel
title=Website Jewish Historical Museum - Two Thousand Witnesses Tell Their Stories; URI=http://www.jhm.nl/2000witnesses
title=NIOD - Sobibor interviews; URI=https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:50558
title=Online interview op de website 'Late gevolgen van Sobibor'; URI=http://www.longshadowofsobibor.com./nl/node/71
title=Website Jewish Historical Museum - Tweeduizend Getuigen Vertellen; URI=http://www.jhm.nl/2000getuigen
title=Project description with all metadata; URI=http://www.persistent-identifier.nl?identifier=urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-hobu-8f
Creator(s)
- Huffener (access, distribution), M. (Stichting Sobibor / Sobibor Foundation))
- Leydesdorff (copyright interview), S. (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
- Mirjam Huffener (project manager), Stichting Sobibor
- Selma Leydesdorff (copyright on interview), Universiteit van Amsterdam - Fac. Geesteswetenschappen
Scope and Content
Mary Richheimer was a little girl of two and a half years old when her parents handed her over to foster parents for hiding. She was treated badly, not only in her first foster family, but also by the Jewish Cohens after the war. Mary never assumed the family name of Cohen but always called herself named Leijden van Amstel, after her parents who were killed in Sobibor. Mary didn't know anything about her parents: she has only one picture of her mother and even nothing at all of her father. The only surviving aunt, a sister of her mother, did not want to talk about her family. Mary always felt a great loss. At all the important moments of life her parents and all relatives she never knew were absent. Still a young girl she began working as a nurse and this is how she met her husband, Guus Richheimer. They founded a family and have four children together. The file with the complete interview as well as a file with the transcription of the interview is available in EASY after permission from Selma Leydesdorff. The interview is also direct online available via the website 'Long Shadow of Sobibor'. However, due to the preparations for a publication by Selma Leydesdorff, some parts of this online interview are masked. Dutch keywords / Trefwoorden: Abcoude, Amstelveen, Amsterdam, Ben Viljoenstraat, Bertie, Bloeme, Bonneterie, Buitenveldert, CIZ, Cohen, Daphne, depressie, Down, drop, Elbaum, Esther, familie Roosen, Femma, Frans Leijden van Amstel, Froutie Cohen, Gideon, Gijsbrecht van Amstelstraat, grootouders, Guus, Hadassa, HBS, Hedi Elbaum, Huis en Haard, kindertehuis, kleinkinderen, kost en inwoning, Leeuwarden, Leijden van Amstel, Leusden, lift, lysol, misbruikt, MULO, nachtdienst, Obrechtstraat, OLVG, opgesloten, paardendeken, Pfeiffer, psychiater, Reijnier Vinkeleskade, Reiss, Richheimer, Rick, Ronnie, Roosen, Sarphatihuis, schort, Stadionweg, tante Femma, tante Frans, Tugelaweg, uniform, verpleegster, weeshuis, Weteringschans, Willie Leijden van Amstel, zuster Blok, zusterhuis
Conditions Governing Reproduction
REQUEST_PERMISSION
http://www.dans.knaw.nl/en/content/dans-licence-agreement-deposited-data
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
mov/H264
Subjects
- Jewish life
- Jewish
- Tweede Wereldoorlog
- Second World War
- Life during the war
- Persecution
- Life before the war
- Shtetl
- Oral history
- Modern history
- History
- Humanities
- Sjtetl
- Leven voor de oorlog
- Co-plaintiff Demjanjuk trial
- Joods leven
- Verwachtingen
- Onderduik
- Vervolging
- Leven in de oorlog
- Camps and ghetto's
- Liberation
- Expectations
- In hiding
- Consequences of Sobibor
- Demjanjuk trial
- Life after the war
- Rebuilding lives
- Bevrijding
- Kampen en getto's
- Leven opbouwen
- Leven na de oorlog
- 2000 getuigen vertellen
- Gevolgen van Sobibor
Places
- Poland
- Sobibor
- Netherlands