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Leslie R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-380) interviewed by Michael Greenwald,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-380

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Leslie R., who was born in approximately 1925, in Oradea, Romania. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment in school; Hungarian occupation; his brother's conscription into a slave labor battalion; ghettoization in May 1944; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June; separation from his mother and sister (he never saw them again); separation from his father (he never saw him again); slave labor in a munitions factory; a black market in his barrack with prisoners from other kommandos; his group of seven friends from Oradea; stealing food as a group; evening cultural gatherings; the Sonderkommando uprising; public hanging of women who were involved; the death march in January 1945; two from his group dying; transfer in open train cars to Gross-Rosen; transfer to Flossenbürg, then Pocking; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. R. discusses inter-group relations; prisoners organizing themselves in camps; and the importance of his friends to his survival.
Author/Creator: R., Leslie, 1925?-
Published: Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
Interview Date: August 2, 1984.
Locale: Romania
Oradea
Oradea (Romania)
Cite As: Leslie R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-380). 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 (2 hr., 47 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Antisemitism Prewar.
Hungarian occupation.
Concentration camps Revolts.
Mutual aid.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Romania--Oradea. Fathers and sons. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Death marches. Friendship. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Forced labor. Romania. Oradea (Romania) Oral histories (document genres) R., Leslie,--1925?- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4293735
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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