Oral history interview with Hermanus Kars
Extent and Medium
2 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 in association with the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. The interview was conducted on January 27, 2005 in The Netherlands for The Netherlands Documentation Project. The Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam assigned copyright and ownership of the interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on January 19, 2006. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in January 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
No restrictions on use
People
- Kars, Hermanus.
- Hermanus Kars
Corporate Bodies
- Netherlands. Koninklijke Landmacht
Subjects
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Altruism--Netherlands.
- Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Netherlands.
- Hiding places--Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Dutch.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Netherlands.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Netherlands.
- Netherlands.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands.
- Holocaust survivors--Netherlands.
- Interfaith marriage--Netherlands.
Genre
- Oral History