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Leo L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1526) interviewed by Patricia Widenhorn and Bernard Weinstein,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1526

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Leo L., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1924. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-729), Mr. L. recounts working in a textile workshop in Auschwitz; privileged work transporting potatoes at Ohrdruf; protection from the German guard; hospitalization after being kicked by an Ukrainian guard; losing his privileged position; the German guard “saving his life” by reclaiming him for his group; a death march in March 1945; escaping with a Soviet POW and others; returning to Ohrdruf; liberation; traveling to Gotha; a Jewish-American soldier providing him with a room and work; working for UNRRA, then the Joint in Hanau; searching for relatives in displaced persons camps; finding three cousins in Bergen-Belsen; contact with three more cousins; finding cousins in Israel who had photographs of his family; visiting Poland in 1983 and finding the woman who had helped him smuggle food into the ghetto; visiting again in 1987 and locating documents detailing his family's deportation to Chelmno, which he then visited. Mr. L. dedicates his testimony to a soldier he recently met who had liberated Ohrdruf.
    Author/Creator
    L., Leo, 1924-2007.
    Published
    Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1989
    Interview Date
    October 11, 1989.
    Locale
    Poland
    Łódź
    Germany
    Łódź (Poland)
    Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
    Gotha (Germany)
    Hanau (Germany)
    Cite As
    Leo L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1526). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Weinstein, Bernard, interviewer.
    Widenhorn, Patricia, interviewer.
    Notes
    Related material: Leo L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-729), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (2 hr., 55 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Postwar experiences.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
    Mutual aid.
    Hospitals in concentration camps.
    Subjects
    Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Brothers. Prisoners of war--Germany. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Death marches. Escapes. Refugee camps. Poland. Łódź (Poland) Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Gotha (Germany) Hanau (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) L., Leo,--1924-2007. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Ohrdruf (Concentration camp) Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp) DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4295375
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:31:00
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