Viveen, Jan (Interview outline and video), 2010

Smither, James (Interviewer)

Jan Viveen, born in 1918 in a small village in North Brabant in the Netherlands. After completing high school in 1936, he was drafted into the Dutch Army in 1936. At the time of the German invasion in 1940, he was manning an antitank gun on the banks of the Erft River, and stayed there until his unit was ordered to surrender. He spent about four months in a POW camp before being allowed to return home. After that, he worked in a rail yard and aided downed Allied airmen. In the spring of 1945, he was sent to a labor camp in Germany, and remained there until the liberation.

2010-09-07

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

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