The interviews relating to the 1953 flood were conducted as part of an oral history project by several groups of (180) students from the Documentation Centre for Contemporary History (DNG) of the University of Amsterdam in 1990-92. Many of the interviewees were direct victims of the disaster, others were related to it as relief workers, administrators etcetera.
The entire project was led by Dr Selma Leydesdorff. She used the interviews in her book Het water en de herinnering. De Zeeuwse watersnoodramp 1953-1993 (with pictures by Ed van Wijk), Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1993.
Title: Het water en de herinnering. De Zeeuwse watersnoodramp 1953-1993
Author: Selma Leydesdorff
Publisher: Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1993
ISBN: 9789029027717