Lydia Riezouw
{{Short description|Dutch photographer, resistance fighter (1923–2005)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Lydia Riezouw
| other_names = Lydia Nobelen-Riezouw,
Lydia van Nobelen-Riezouw
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|10|04|df=y}}
| birth_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2005|12|09|1923|10|04|df=y}}
| death_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands
| occupation = Photographer, nurse, resistance fighter
}}
Lydia Riezouw (4 October 1923 – 9 December 2005), also known as Lydia van Nobelen-Riezouw,{{Cite book |last1=Dreier |first1=Werner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DFhSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA108 |title=Interactions: Explorations of good practice in educational work with video testimonies of victims of National Socialism |last2=Laumer |first2=Angelika |last3=Wein |first3=Moritz |year=2018 |publisher=BoD |isbn=978-3-9818556-1-6 |pages=108 |language=en}} was a Dutch photographer and resistance fighter during the World War II.{{Cite news |last=Duffy |first=Robert W. |date=November 10, 1996 |title=Affecting Photos Testify To Courage, Above All |pages=3C |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/305250345 |id={{ProQuest|305250345}} }}
Biography
Lydia 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.{{Citation |last=Gringold |first=Annemiek |title='Building of Tears': Sixteen Months as a Site of Assembly and Deportation |date=2018 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/site-of-deportation-site-of-memory/building-of-tears-sixteen-months-as-a-site-of-assembly-and-deportation/753B7395C4B8EAF3E4BBAE448EEC0E90 |work=Site of Deportation, Site of Memory: The Amsterdam Hollandsche Schouwburg and the Holocaust |pages=111–154 |editor-last=Duindam |editor-first=David |access-date=2023-10-05 |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-90-485-3672-6 |editor2-last=van Vree |editor2-first=Frank |editor3-last=Berg |editor3-first=Hetty}}
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.{{Cite book |last1=Mather |first1=Frank Jewett |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aFhUAAAAMAAJ |title=Art in America |last2=Sherman |first2=Frederic Fairchild |date=1997 |publisher=Art in America, Incorporated |volume=85 |pages=118 |language=en}} 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. Those photographs from 1942 by Riezouw were later shown at exhibitions worldwide,{{Cite news |last=Boxer |first=Sarah |date=1996-08-23 |title=Just Beyond the Placid Images, Brutal Death Waits |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/23/arts/just-beyond-the-placid-images-brutal-death-waits.html |access-date=2023-10-05 |issn=0362-4331}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Lydia Riezouw (Amsterdam, 4 oktober 1923 – Amsterdam, 9 december 2005) |url=https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/tijdlijn/Lydia-Riezouw/03/0004 |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=Oorlogsbronnen.nl |language=nl}} She was cremated in Amsterdam.
Exhibitions
- 1996, "The Illegal Camera: Photography in the Netherlands During the German Occupation, 1940–1945", group exhibition, Jewish Museum, New York City, New York
See also
References
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External links
- Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFsg_ReL5VM Interview with Riezouw] (before 2005)
- [https://beeldbankwo2.nl/nl/beelden/detail/4ddd0a76-025a-11e7-904b-d89d6717b464/media/55ca2fe3-1bae-295a-b53b-229c11b95cc8 Riezouw photo from 1942] via Beeldbank WO2 (Image Bank WW2), NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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Category:Artists from Amsterdam
Category:Dutch people of World War II