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Leon K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1424) interviewed by Nadine Weinstein and Adele Rice Nudel,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1424

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Leon K., who was born in a small town in Bosnia in 1907 to a family of nine children. He recalls his father's death; attending business college; a government job; marriage in Travnik on the day of the German invasion in 1941; working in Tuzla; moving to Travnik; hiding for three months to avoid deportation; reaching Italian-occupied Mostar with help from a Muslim; his wife joining him in January 1942; and fleeing to the mountains. He recounts living with partisans; moving to Kotor; transfer to Vieste, then Bari, Italy; emigration to the United States in 1943; living in the Fort Ontario refugee camp; their daughter's birth in 1945; and learning after the war that most of their family perished. Mr. K. shows a prayer book he carried throughout the war.
    Author/Creator
    K., Leon, 1907-
    Published
    Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1990
    Interview Date
    November 18, 1990.
    Locale
    Yugoslavia
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Kotor (Montenegro)
    Bari (Italy)
    Vieste (Italy)
    Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
    Travnik (Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
    Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
    Cite As
    Leon K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1424). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Weinstein, Nadine, interviewer.
    Nudel, Adele Rice, interviewer.
    Notes
    Associated material: Shary K. Holocaust testimony [wife] (HVT-1428), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (56 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Hiding.
    Italian occupation.
    Partisans.
    Aid by non-Jews.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1087040
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:28:00
    This page:
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