Overview
- Interview Summary
- Leonard Hilton, born in 1920 in Krakow, Poland, discusses his family life in Krakow, being refused admission to engineering school because of the Jewish quota; being sent by his father to Grenoble; France for his education; the last time he saw his father who visited him in Grenoble in the summer of 1939; trying to avoid the Nazis during the war in Vichy, France; his attempt to escape to Switzerland; crossing the Pyrenees on foot to get to Spain; and ending up in England after he was recruited from a Spanish prison by the British Secret Service to be a courier and later a soldier.
- Interviewer
- Joshua Sussman
- Date
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interview:
2002-2004
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Richard Sussman
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 digital file : MP4.
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Richard Sussman donated the interview with Leonard Hilton to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 2019.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:46:10
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