Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

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Miriam Troostwyk - May 28, 1998 and June 3, 1999

What made you go there?

Well, they told us we had to go there, the, the--I don't know, may...the mayor ??? the people who evacuated the people from Amersfoort .

So it was civil service?

And--yeah and I remember we were uh, sleeping in--on, on straw, uh, one night. And I was uh, sleeping next to my sister. When I was my family, it was okay. That was fine.

Was this in someone's house? Did you stay in a house?

No. It was in a hall.

You stayed outside.

First a hall with--on straw and then we came to a house--to two houses. Uh, my parents were in one house with me and in the other little house there was uh, my sister and my brother-in-law.

And your sister's name is?

Paula.

Paula. And Hermann is her husband?

Yes. But they were uh, young and uh, so always run over from house to the other. And sometimes I slept there too. There I would slept with them, but not in uh, Germany, because I heard too much somehow, when I go there, I will never come out, something like that, I don't know exactly. I was thinking.

And how long were you there in uh, this town? You, you were evacuated to the north?

Uh, I don't know, maybe a week, maybe a little bit...

Just a week?

Yeah.