Erfgoed van de Oorlog, Bystander Memories, interview RG-50.570.0008

The interviewee was born 22 March, 1918. During the war he became involved in resistance activities in the so-called Westerweel/Loosdrecht Group, through his wife. He provided food coupons and brought them to Jewish children in hiding, and helped Jewish children to escape to Spain via Belgium.

He talks extensively about his work for this group. Through the group he was also involved in the escape of a Jewish woman from Westerbork concentration camp. In Amsterdam, the interviewee witnessed the execution of a group of men on a street near Weteringcircuit.

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