Erfgoed van de Oorlog, Bystander Memories, interview RG-50.570.0006

Verder gaat hij in op de bevrijding en vertelt hij over zijn vriendschap met een joodse jongen, die de oorlog overleefd bleek te hebben. The interviewee was born on 28 August, 1926 and grew up in Schiedam. There, he saw how his Jewish neighbours over the road were deported.

He talks predominantly about the period in Germany, where he worked from December 1944 onward for the Arbeitseinsatz. During his work there in the Munich area he met Jewish forced labourers from Dachau concentration camp. He saw in what a bad state these people were in and talks about the work they were forced to do.

He also describes the moment when Jewish prisoners were forced to kick a fellow prisoner to death. He also talks about the liberation and talks about his friendship with a Jewish man, who turned out to have survived the war. Date Submitted: 2010-04-01 Van dit interview zijn eveneens uitgebreide samenvattingen met tijd-codes beschikbaar in zowel het Nederlands als Engels.

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