- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Leo R., who was born in Różan, Russia (currently Poland) in 1913, one of nine children. He recalls attending cheder and public school; participating in Po'alei Zion; anti-Jewish violence; working in Myślenice; German invasion; joining his family in Ostrów Mazowiecki; fleeing with his father and brothers to Soviet-occupied Zambrów; moving with his parents and several siblings to Slonim; German invasion in 1941; hiding during a mass killing; traveling with a brother, two sisters, and their families to Zambrów via Białystok; staying with a brother in Tarnów to avoid forced labor; ghettoization of Zambrów; escaping to a forest; hiding with Polish farmers; entering the Zambrów ghetto; forced labor as a carpenter; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; slave labor in Buna/Monowitz; briefly remaining with one brother; many deaths caused by beatings; transfer to Auschwitz; privileged work as a carpenter; frequent selections; a death march, then train transport to Mauthausen in January 1945; transfer to Ebensee; hospitalization; liberation by United States troops; reunion with two brothers; illegally traveling to Milan to emigrate to Palestine; British interdiction of the ship; a twenty-one month internment on Cyprus; marriage in Israel in 1952; and emigration to the United States in 1956. Mr. R. notes the deaths of his five sisters in the Holocaust; recurring nightmares; and sharing his experiences with his children.
- Author/Creator
- R., Leo, 1913-
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- December 12, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Zambrów
Russia
Różan (Poland)
Ostrów Mazowiecka (Poland)
Myślenice (Poland)
Zambrów (Poland)
Slonim (Belarus)
Białystok (Poland)
Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
Milan (Italy)
Cyprus
Palestine
- Cite As
- Leo R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-467). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kay, Abraham, interviewer.
