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Hollanders, Louis

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Description de l'interview extraite du site US Fortunoff / Biographie à venir

 

Louis Hollanders was born in Louvain, Belgium in 1919, one of four children. He recounts attending school; working at the University of Louvain; enlisting in the military in 1939; German invasion; retreating to Brussels; capitulation; returning home; joining the Resistance (learning after the war it was directed by Sûreté de l'État); spying on German military construction in Beauvechain; delivering weapons and information to his contacts; denouncement; his family's arrest as hostages; surrendering in March 1941 to obtain their release; incarceration in St. Gilles; interrogations and beatings; transfer to Lübeck, Hamburg, then Charlottenburg; a sham trial; imprisonment in Lehrterstrasse; transfer to Tegel; solitary confinement, except occasionally attending Mass, his only contact with others prisoners, including a Jew; another prisoner giving him wires and telephone parts from which he built a radio receiver; punishment when it was discovered; being forced to make brushes in his cell; sabotaging the process; transfer to Breslau, Neutitschein, then Dachau in September 1944; becoming very weak and ill; liberation by United States troops; Soviet prisoners killing a guard; hospitalization; repatriation to Brussels; assistance from the Red Cross; hospitalization in Anderlecht; a hero's welcome home; marriage in 1949; and the births of three children. Mr. H. discusses relations between national groups in prisons and Dachau; suffering more from isolation than hunger, despite his sense of developing intellectually from the isolation; never fully recovering his health; and nightmares resulting from his experiences.

(Copyright : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies)

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Code interview : YA/FA/111
Date interview : 19/06/1996
Lieu interview : Centre Audiovisuel de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
Durée interview : 4h58
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Michel Rosenfeldt et Nina Toussaint
Cameraman : Adrien Antoniol
Consultation : Autorisée
Indexation thématique : non
Séquençage interview : non

Mots-clés du témoignage :
Charlottenburg / Berlin (prison) | Dachau | Hamburg/Hambourg (prison) | Martiny–Daumerie (Service de renseignement) | Mohabit / Berlin (prison) | Résistant / Résistante | Saint Gilles (prison) | Service de Renseignement et d’Action (S.R.A.) | Tegel / Berlin (prison)

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