LEADER 04895cpd a2200625 a 4500001 4288766 005 20180604133150.0 008 980731s1993 ctu lad d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702233501 035 HVT-2774 035 |9FLW2942YL 035 4288766 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702155053 090 |bHVT-2774 100 1 B., Leon, |d1915?- 245 10 Leon B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2774) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Jaša Almuli, |fJune 1, 1993. 260 Thessalonikē, Greece : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1993. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 32 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Leon B., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in approximately 1915. He recalls his large family; attending Italian school; working with his father and uncle; deteriorating conditions beginning from July 1942; the Jewish community raising funds to ransom people from labor camps; ghettoization in February 1943; the role of the Judenrat and its president, Rabbi Zvi Koretz; deportations beginning in March 1943; his family's arrival at Auschwitz/Birkenau on May 2; separation from his parents; slave labor paving a road; transfer a month later to Zgoda (Świętochłowice); hospitalization; return with other sick prisoners to Auschwitz/Birkenau in January 1944 for extermination; a reprieve in front of the gas chambers because there were too few; hospitalization; recovering; sewing for the doctors (he was a tailor); reassignment in August separating plane parts, to Canada Kommando, then, in November, to destroy the crematoria; a death march in January 1945 and train transport to Dachau, then Waldlager; return to Dachau when he was ill; a death march and train transport to Mittenwald; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. B. describes working three months as a translator for the United States army; returning to Thessalonikē via Munich and Athens; learning his parents and younger sister were killed in Birkenau; marriage; raising a family; and his leadership role in the Jewish community, which received assistance from the Joint. 546 This testimony is in Ladino. 524 Leon B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2774). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 B., Leon, |d1915?- 600 10 Koretz, Zvi. 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Birkenau (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007 610 20 Zgoda (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99027967 610 20 Dachau (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065344 610 20 Waldlager V (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014070568 610 20 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50079799 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zGreece |zThessalonikē. 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 651 0 Thessalonikē (Greece) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80056641 651 0 Mittenwald (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85308096 651 0 Munich (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059670 651 0 Athens (Greece) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018143 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Hospitals in concentration camps. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Salonika ghetto. 693 24 Canada Kommando. 700 1 Almuli, Jaša, |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2006003164 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4667875 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.2774) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/n872v2ck64 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/