Interview with Frederick Louis Sitter

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Object description

Dutch schoolchild living in Amsterdam, Netherlands 1940-1944; evacuee from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Hasselt, Belgium, 1944-1945

Content description

REEL 1 Background in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1933-1940: family background including religious conversion to Lutheran and story of family members interned by Japanese in Dutch East Indies; relationship with parents including their work and musical careers; premature birth; education; father's political outlook and pre-war politics in Netherlands. Recollections of period as schoolchild in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1940-1944: German invasion of Netherlands and occupation of Amsterdam; description of Allied air raids including shelter taken; geography of Amsterdam and Netherlands; location of Jewish Quarter in Amsterdam. REEL 2 Continues: fate of Jewish population; details of rations and fuel shortages including introduction of national kitchens; method of cooking; handing over of metal for German war effort; items hidden in flat including illicit radio; listening to Radio Free Orange; family home; food stores; initial belief the war would not last long and news of war; problems with water supply; blackout; father having to dismantle printing presses for movement to Germany; story of Jewish dance teacher; occasion of German inspection of parents' papers; story of relation fighting on Eastern Front; sinking of printing presses and later return to factory; nature of wartime education; deportation of Dutch males for forced labour to Germany, 1944. REEL 3 Continues: Recollections of period as evacuee from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Hasselt, Belgium, 1944-1945: health problems and organisation of evacuation; description of Hasselt; relations with German Army troops; arrival of Allied troops, 1944; rations; receiving news from parents in Amsterdam, Netherlands including details of Royal Air Force's Operation Manna, food shortages, eating of bulbs, filtration of water from River Amstel, stripping of Jewish Quarter for supplies, sources of wood, dumping of refuse, civilian health problems and use of wind power in hospitals; relatively easier living conditions in Hasselt; health problems of and relations between parents; clothing situation; washing of clothes; winter conditions, 1944-1945; details of soap used; clogs and other footwear worn; reaction to lack of coverage on Dutch civilian experiences during Second World War. REEL 4 Continues: wartime activities of later foster family, the Van Dykes; details of collaborators including revenge taken on them after Second World War; story of German friend; Dutch Resistance; hearing news of D-Day, 6/6/1944; bartering for food on farms prior to evacuation from Amsterdam, Netherlands; story of Lucie Groeneveld; journey from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Hasselt, Belgium; details of Van de Velde family in Hasselt. Aspects of period as civilian in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1945-1952: appetite of people after war; death of parents, 1952; father's post-war employment; return of Jewish civilians to Amsterdam; state of health since Second World War.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Smith, Lyn E (Recorder)
Sitter, Frederick Louis (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2000-07-03
Dimensions: whole: Duration 115, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 20530

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Associated people and organisations

Sitter, Frederick Louis
Groeneveld, Lucie
Resistance, Dutch
Radio Orange
Royal Air Force, Operation, Manna
German Army
Associated places

Netherlands
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
River Amstel, Netherlands
Belgium
Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium
Germany
Dutch East Indies
Associated themes

Nazi Europe, 1933-1945

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