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008    000113s1990    ctu                 eng d
035    (OCoLC)ocn702235057
035    (CStRLIN)CTYV00-A5
035    4295996
035    HVT-1718
035     |9FLX0266YL
040    CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm
079    (OCoLC)702158041
090     |bHVT-1718
100 1  J., Leon, |d1917-
245 10 Leon J. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1718) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Bonnie Dwork and Kathy Strochlic, |fNovember 5, 1990.
260    New York, N.Y. : |bA Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, |c1990.
300    1 videorecording (1 hr., 38 min.) : |bcol.
520    Videotape testimony of Leon J., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1917.  He recalls serving in the Polish army; German invasion; capture; forced labor as a POW; return to Poland in April 1940; ghettoization; obtaining a privileged position; deportation with his mother to Auschwitz in August 1944 (his two brothers remained behind); transfer to Braunschweig days later; slave labor in a car factory; train transport to Ravensbrück in February 1945, then to Ludwigslust in April; liberation by United States troops on May 2; living in a displaced persons camp; learning his brothers had survived; marriage; traveling to Bari, Italy; emigration to Israel in 1948; working in the food service industry; serving in the Sinai Campaign; and emigration with his wife and children to the United States in 1958 to join his brothers.  Mr. J. discusses building a model of the Łódź ghetto; his son's interest in the Holocaust; and his daughter's lack of interest.
562     |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
524    Leon J. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1718). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
600 10 J., Leon, |d1917-
610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
610 20 Braunschweig (Concentration camp)
610 20 Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
610 20 Ludwigslust (Concentration camp)
650  0 Holocaust survivors.
650  0 Video tapes.
650  0 Men.
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xParticipation, Jewish.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xParticipation, Polish.
650  0 Prisoners of war |zGermany.
650  0 Jewish ghettos.
650  0 Jews |zPoland |zŁódź.
650  0 Forced labor.
650  0 Refugee camps.
650  0 Sinai Campaign, 1956.
651  0 Poland.
651  0 Łódź (Poland)
651  0 Bari (Italy)
651  0 Israel.
655  7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
690  4 Survivor-child relations.
691  4 Łódź ghetto.
700 1  Dwork, Bonnie, |einterviewer.
700 1  Strochlic, Kathy, |einterviewer.
852    Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
902     |b4675424
903     |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.1718) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/gm81j97f54
904     |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/