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Van Kerckhoven, Nina

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Nina Van Kerckhoven was raised in Mechelen, Belgium. She recounts attending middle school when the Germans invaded; she and classmates forming a group to distribute clandestine anti-German publications; arrest with many from the group on June 17, 1942; imprisonment in Antwerp; transfer to Aachen, Essen, then Zweibrücken a few months later; transfer to another camp, then Esterwegen; placement in solitary confinement as was her friend; a trial and two-month sentence; transfer to Gross Strehlitz, then Esterwegen; slave labor weeding and harvesting produce; eating some of the food they harvested; transfer to Ravensbrück; singing to raise morale; the oppressive feeling there; solidarity with those in her block and other Belgians; transfer a few weeks later to Mauthausen; slave labor in Amstettin clearing bombing rubble; liberation by United States troops; assistance from the Red Cross; transfer to St. Gall; and repatriation; discusses the difficulty of telling parents whose children were deported with her that they had not survived; continuing friendship with the woman who survived with her; occasional nightmares resulting from her experiences; and sharing her story with her daughter on a visit to Austria.

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

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Code interview : YA/FA/023
Date interview : 16/12/1992
Lieu interview : Centre Audiovisuel de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
Durée interview : 2h39
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Yannis Thanassekos et Claire Paulus
Cameraman : Olivier Van Wassenhove
Consultation : Autorisée
Indexation thématique : oui
Séquençage interview : oui

Mots-clés du témoignage :
Aachen / Aix-la-Chapelle (prison) | Antwerpen / Anvers (prison) | Armée Secrète (A.S.) | Essen (prison) | Esterwegen | Gross-Strehlitz (prison) | Mauthausen | Mesum (prison) | Nacht und Nebel (N.N.) | Ravensbrück | Résistant / Résistante | Zweibrücken (prison)

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