Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Leon P., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1920. He recalls studying Hebrew, French, and Greek in a private Jewish school; German invasion; his brother's emigration to Palestine; increasing hardships in the Salonika ghetto; arranging to join the partisans in the mountains; deciding to remain with his parents when they wept at his impending departure; their deportation to Birkenau; separation upon arrival (he never saw them again); assistance from a Polish block commander; transfer to Auschwitz; slave labor in a Krupp munitions factory, then in the Union Kommando; learning Polish; assistance from fellow prisoners when he was ill; hiding with friends, including two boys he had saved during the evacuation; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Kraków, Lublin, then to Chernivt︠s︡i; and joining the Soviet army in Slutsk. Mr. P. discusses the importance to his survival of his mechanical and linguistic skills and help from others; intergroup relations in concentration camps; emotional responses to camp life; and writing his memoirs, published in Greek, entitled "Mazel."
- Published
- Thessalonikē, Greece : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
- Interview Date
- June 7, 1993.
- Locale
- Greece
Thessalonikē
Thessalonikē (Greece)
Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
Slutsk (Belarus)
Kraków (Poland)
Lublin (Poland) - Cite As
- Leon P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2788). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Ladino.
Physical Details
- Language
- Ladino
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 11 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Aid by non-Jews.
Hiding.
Mutual aid.
Union Kommando. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Soviet. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. Jews--Greece--Thessalonikē. Greece. Thessalonikē (Greece) Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine) Slutsk (Belarus) Kraków (Poland) Lublin (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) P., Leon,--1920- Birkenau (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Fried. Krupp AG.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4288789
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:29:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4288789
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