Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Leon S., who was born in 1923, one of six children. He recounts attending public school and cheder in Chrzanów, Poland; participating in Gordonyah; working in his father's barber shop; German invasion; fleeing to Miechów; returning home; deportation to Gogolin; returning home a year later; deportation to Markstädt, Fünfteichen, Gross-Rosen, Flossenbürg, then Regensburg; slave labor on railroad lines; working as a barber (he cut the camp kommandant's hair); receiving extra food for shaving prisoners; Allied bombings; escaping from a death march; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Altötting, then Ulm; emigration to Palestine via France; and reunion with his sister.
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
- Interview Date
- August 2, 1993.
- Locale
- Poland
Chrzanów (Poland)
Miechów (Miechów, Poland)
Ulm (Germany)
Altötting (Germany)
France
Palestine - Cite As
- Leon S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3570). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
-
This testimony is in Hebrew.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Death marches. Poland. Chrzanów (Poland) Miechów (Miechów, Poland) Ulm (Germany) Altötting (Germany) France. Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Oral histories (document genres) S., Leon,--1923- Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association) Markstädt (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
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/4298295
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4298295
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