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Aldewereld-Chagoll, Lydia

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Adler, Hélène
Alexandre, Samuel
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Description de l'interview extraite du site US Fortunoff / Biographie à venir

 

Lydia Aldewereld was born in the Netherlands in 1931. She recounts living in Brussels from nine months of age; observing Jewish customs in their liberal home; her father's anti-Fascist activities; German invasion; a warning to leave due to her father's activities; fleeing with her parents and sisters through France; her father's opportunity to emigrate to England; his refusing to leave his family in Biarritz; living in a monastery with her mother and sister in Toulouse; a brief stay in Paris; living in a nearby refugee center for Dutch citizens (her father was the director); traveling to Lisbon, then Madrid; traveling by ship to Jakarta via Maputo and Durban; arrival on November 8, 1941; placement in a refugee camp until December 1; placement with her sister with a local family (their parents were placed elsewhere); her father's military draft; living with her sister in Bogor; Japanese invasion; return to Jakarta with their mother; placement in a Japanese concentration camp in Tjideng; learning her father was a POW; their transfer to a camp near Jakarta; lack of sanitation and food; slave labor; prisoners dying from malnutrition and illness; transfer to Tjideng, then a punishment camp; increasingly harsh conditions; transfer to Tangerang; religious instruction from a Jewish teacher; observing Jewish holidays; a large group of Iraqi Jewish prisoners; transfer to another camp; her severe illness; losing her will to live; assistance from a prisoner nurse; liberation in September 1945; and joining her father in Singapore in November.

(Copyright : Fortunoff Video Archives for Holocaust Testimonies – Yale)

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Code interview : YA/FA/130
Date interview : 21/04/1997, 06/10/1997 et 17/11/1997
Lieu interview : Centre Audiovisuel de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
Durée interview : 10h54
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Michel Rosenfeldt et Nina Toussaint
Cameraman : Adrien Antoniol
Consultation : non autorisée
Indexation thématique : non
Séquençage interview : non

Mots-clés du témoignage :
Adek (camp d’internement japonais) | Grogol (camp d’internement japonais) | Juif / Juive | Tangerang (camp d’internement japonais) | Tjideng (camp d’internement japonais)

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