Dini Hansma oral history, 2002.

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Dini Hansma oral history, 2002.

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Interview of Dina Hansma conducted by Albert Winkler on January 30, 2002. A cassette tape and a 34 page typescript of the interview. Hansma's 3 page account called "War Memories of a Child" is included. Hansma discusses how the German occupation of World War II affected her life in the Netherlands. She was eight years old when the war began and thirteen when it ended. Her Jewish neighbors were taken away in trucks. German soldiers came to her house to take food and made her march at gunpoint to get beer. One German soldier came to use her piano. She took care of the garden; it was too dangerous for adults to garden. She also slipped into the German lines twice a week to get milk. At the end of her biography she writes, "Though I was only 13 years old when peace came I had functioned on an adult level for so long, that I could not step back and be a child."

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Hansma, Dini

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Dina Hansma was born in the Netherlands. She was there as a child during World War II. After the war, she joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was living in Utah at the time of this interview. From the description of Dini Hansma oral history, 2002. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367839032 ...

Winkler, A. J. (Albert Julius), 1894-1989

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Albert Winkler is the American and British History librarian at Brigham Young University and has been a senior librarian since 1979. He received his BA and MA from Utah State University in 1973 and 1976, an MA from the Catholic University of America in 1980, and an MLS and PhD from Brigham Young University in 1981 and 1982, respectively. From the description of Albert Winkler research papers, 1790-1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367884541 ...