Overview
- Interview Summary
- Leon Leyson discusses how he kept his Holocaust experience from neighbors and loved ones; the changing attitudes about the Holocaust from generation to generation; his teaching career; how the movie Schindler’s List urged him to start talking about what happened; his feelings about the reemergence of anti-Semitism and hate; his thoughts on European versus American antisemitism; how he presents the Holocaust to teenagers and children; his feelings on hatred and tolerance; his feelings about what happened to him in the Holocaust; keeping his faith during and after the Holocaust; a typical day in the ghetto and the diverse population there; surviving in the ghetto; the lack of negative responses to him telling his story in the local newspapers; and the Krakow ghetto and its fate.
- Interviewee
- Leon Leyson
- Interviewer
- Thomas Keneally
- Date
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interview:
1995 January 19
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Paul Preston
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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2 DVD : MPEG-2.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Antisemitism--Europe. Antisemitism--United States. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Study and teaching. Holocaust survivors--United States. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków. Toleration. Men--Personal narratives.
- Personal Name
- Leyson, Leon.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Paul Preston donated a copy of the oral history interview with Leon Leyson to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 2013. The interview was originally part of a public access television show entitled "An evening with Thomas Keneally," produced by Paul Preston and aired on January 19, 1995 in Yorba Linda, CA.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:29:47
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