Overview
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes
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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. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Husband and wife. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Yugoslavia. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Yugoslavia. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Kotor (Montenegro) Bari (Italy) Vieste (Italy) Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Travnik (Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Oral histories (document genres) K., Leon,--1907- Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1087040
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1087040
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