Jetse S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jetse S., a Protestant, who was born in the Netherlands in approximately 1926 and raised in Hilversum. He recounts cordial relations with Jews; German invasion in 1940; rationing; his father warning Jewish friends in 1941 not to register; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father serving in a civil defense unit that was a front for the resistance; hiding a Jewish friend in their home for several months; his father obtaining false papers for his friend and arranging a hiding place in Amsterdam; receiving a postcard from him from Westerbork (he did not survive); seeking hiding places for Jews; avoiding forced labor by attending a technical school in Doredrecht for a year; hiding from forced labor with six friends; obtaining false papers; returning home to hide; liberation by Canadian troops; enlistment in the Dutch military in 1946; serving in Indonesia; completing his studies in 1955; emigration to the United States; and his career as a professor of sociology.
Extent and Medium
3 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
- S., Jetse, -- 1926?-
Subjects
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Dutch.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Hiding.
- Resistance.
- Rescuers.
- False papers.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
Places
- Hilversum (Netherlands)
- Dordrecht (Netherlands)
- Netherlands.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat