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Interview with Suzanna Hartveld

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Date

16 Apr 1999

By

Hartveld, Suzanna, 1910-2007

Reference

OHInt-0427-18

Description

Suzanna Hartveld born Rotterdam, Holland 1910. Gives family background in Holland. Describes: schooling; family home; death of mother and father's re-marriage; nursing training; impact of Depression in Holland; work with Mennonite Mission, Indonesia and work with lepers at Leper Colony in Djatiroto in Central Java. Describes unrest and being rounded up by Japanese and camp at Lampuyongan, 1941-1945. Gives details of conditions in camp, 80 deaths per day, fate of boys who were taken away from parents and slave labour after Allied Forces torpedoed Japanese Red Cross ship. Describes journey to Kandi main camp after the war and treatment required. Spent one year in hospital and several months convalescing before returning to Dutch East Indies in 1948. Backgrounds decision to come to New Zealand, arriving 1952 and nursing at Middlemore. Discusses meeting with Quakers and involvement. Mentions Florence and Flewellyn King, Connie Gill, Hugh Golsbury, Con Famfield, Hanna Munn and Ruth Stone.

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Interviewer(s) - Penelope Dunkley

Accompanying material - Photocopy of article from Central Leader, 23 April 1985 - Dutch nurse recalls 3 1/2 years of hell....

Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007432-007435

File arranged as OHDL-000806

Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 3.03 Hours and minutes Duration.

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1877, OHDL-000806 (partial).

Additional description

Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.

Alternative form available: Both printed and digital (partial) versions of the abstract are available

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Public use may require the written permission of the copyright holder Copyright: Copyright held by Penelope Dunkley.

Access restrictions

Partly restricted material

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Quaker Oral History Project

Format

4 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 1 Electronic document(s), 3.03 Hours and minutes Duration, Oral histories, Electronic records (Digital records), Electronic documents, Equipment used: Sony TCM 5000EV cassette recorder and ECM144 lapel microphones

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