Bauma, Gerard (Interview transcript and video), 2011

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Bauma, Gerard (Interview transcript and video), 2011

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Smither, James (Interviewer)

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Gerry Bauma lived in the Netherlands during World War II. As a seminary student, he had the opportunity to live in the times without having to go into forced labor as many of his friends did, although he was at one point caught up in a German sweep and sent to a forced labor camp, where he stayed until the seminary arranged for him to be released. He also observed the initial German attempt to capture the Hague by air, and after the surrender took his bike up to Rotterdam to inspect the bomb damage. He got a radio during the war, and passed along things he learned to a friend who ran an underground newspaper. He survived the "Hunger Winter" of 1944-45, and emigrated to Canada shortly after the war.

Date

2011-02-08

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Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives

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Veterans History Project (U.S.)

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BaumaG1076V

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eng

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Bauma, Gerard, “Bauma, Gerard (Interview transcript and video), 2011,” Digital Collections, accessed December 25, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/27109.
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