Oral history interview with Rita Boas-Koopman
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette, analog
Biographical History
The interview was conducted by Thames Television for the "World at War" Television Series. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired a copy of the interview with Rita Boas-Koopman from the Imperial War Museum in February 1995
Archival History
Imperial War Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, purchased from the Imperial War Museum Collection
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use. Permission to copy and/or use recordings in any production must be granted by the Imperial War Museums.
People
- Rita Boas-Koopman
- Boas-Koopman, Rita.
Corporate Bodies
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Vught (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Netherlands.
- Death marches.
- Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Jewish refugees--Sweden.
- Women Kapos.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Netherlands.
- Women concentration camp guards.
- Jews--Persecutions--Netherlands.
- Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Head shaving.
- Sweden.
- Holocaust survivors--Great Britain.
- Lower Saxony (Germany)
- Great Britain.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Death march survivors.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
Genre
- Oral History