Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

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

Hiding

[laughs] Um, March 7th, 1943, until April 16th, 1945, you were in hiding, in the farm of the Vandenberg...

In Arnhem.

family.

Yes.

All right. Ten people were there.

It was not a farm, it was a very poor little house. I'm very sorry that it isn't there anymore. And uh, it was a beaute garden, a beautiful garden and uh, with a lot of fruit trees and vegetables.

Now, one of the last things you said to me at our last session was um, we had a wonderful time.

Yeah.

You said you were together.

We had a lot of stress because there was always hanging, hanging a sword over your...

Right.

Head--over your head.


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