Lydia Riezouw (4 October 1923 – 9 December 2005), also known as Lydia van Nobelen-Riezouw,[1] was a Dutch photographer and resistance fighter during the World War II.[2]
Lydia Riezouw | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 October 1923 |
| Died | 9 December 2005 (aged 82) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Other names | Lydia Nobelen-Riezouw, Lydia van Nobelen-Riezouw |
| Occupation(s) | Photographer, nurse, resistance fighter |
Biography
editLydia Riezouw was born on 4 October 1923 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She lived almost her life, including during the war, in her parents home at Plantage Kerklaan 9 in Amsterdam. She was not Jewish.[3]
In 1942, Riezouw took five photographs from her room of the Jewish prisoners being held in the Hollandsche Schouwburg (English: Dutch Theatre or Hollandic Theatre), they were recently captured to be transported to concentration camps in Germany.[3][4] The back garden of her parents home bordered the courtyard of the Hollandsche Schouwburg and in 1942, Riezouw saw her Jewish friend, Greetje Velleman, from the window of her house. The prisoners were allowed to get some fresh air outside and Riezouw photographs Velleman and the other people in the courtyard. She also plays records on the gramophone for them. Greetje is one of the first Jews to be imprisoned in the Hollandsche Schouwburg; and age seventeen Velleman was murdered in Auschwitz on 30 September 1942.[3] Those photographs from 1942 by Riezouw were later shown at exhibitions worldwide,[5] and are part of the collection at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Lydia Riezouw died in 2005 at the Slotervaart Nursing Home in Amsterdam, where she lived the last years of her life.[6] She was cremated in Amsterdam.
Exhibitions
edit- 1996, "The Illegal Camera: Photography in the Netherlands During the German Occupation, 1940–1945", group exhibition, Jewish Museum, New York City, New York[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Dreier, Werner; Laumer, Angelika; Wein, Moritz (2018-07-03). Interactions: Explorations of good practice in educational work with video testimonies of victims of National Socialism. BoD. p. 108. ISBN 978-3-9818556-1-6.
- ^ Duffy, Robert W. (November 10, 1996). "Affecting Photos Testify To Courage, Above All". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. pp. 3C. ProQuest 305250345 – via ProQuest.
- ^ a b c Gringold, Annemiek (2018), Duindam, David; van Vree, Frank; Berg, Hetty (eds.), "'Building of Tears': Sixteen Months as a Site of Assembly and Deportation", Site of Deportation, Site of Memory: The Amsterdam Hollandsche Schouwburg and the Holocaust, Amsterdam University Press, pp. 111–154, ISBN 978-90-485-3672-6, retrieved 2023-10-05
- ^ Mather, Frank Jewett; Sherman, Frederic Fairchild (1997). Art in America. Vol. 85. Art in America, Incorporated. p. 118.
- ^ a b Boxer, Sarah (1996-08-23). "Just Beyond the Placid Images, Brutal Death Waits". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
- ^ "Lydia Riezouw (Amsterdam, 4 oktober 1923 - Amsterdam, 9 december 2005)". Oorlogsbronnen.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2023-10-07.
External links
edit- Video: Interview with Riezouw (before 2005)
- Riezouw photo from 1942 via Beeldbank WO2 (Image Bank WW2), NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies