Reminiscences of Josephine Prins, 2004

Biographical Note

Holocaust survivor

Scope and Contents

Background: born Antwerp, Belgium, move to Netherlands at age five; childhood: attending Dutch schools, importance of education, fond memories, respecting parents; World War II [WWII]: arrival of Germans in 1940, Dutch Jews sent to Germany, hiding in The Hague, separation from family, parents death in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp; experiences in Auschwitz, liberation by Dutch soldier in US Army; post-WWII: emotional trauma from Holocaust, relating September 11th to Holocaust, reading of letter written to doctor in Holland in 1984

Subjects

• Albarelli, Gerry, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.
• Holocaust survivors--New York (State)--New York--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Prins, Josephine, 1926-2007.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

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