LEADER 08205cpd a2200925 a 4500001 4297411 005 20180604132617.0 008 980731s1991 ctu heb d 035 HVT-3317 035 4297411 035 |9FLX1702YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005114251 090 |bHVT-3317 100 1 B., Leon, |d1919- 245 10 Leon B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3317) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Anita Tarsi, |fDecember 26, 1991. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1991. 300 1 videorecording (9 hr., 20 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Leon B., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1919, one of three children. He recounts his family's affluence; attending cheder and a German school; participating in Zionist groups, including Betar; a lecture by Vladimir Jabotinsky; his father purchasing land in Israel; managing a Zionist youth camp in Sękowa in summer 1939; German invasion; fleeing with his father and sister to Będzin; his mother and brother joining them; moving to Sosnowiec; organizing a Zionist group with Yiśraʼel Ḳoz'ukh and others; warning fellow Jews not to report for deportation; forced labor building roads; deportation to Gross Masselwitz; escaping back to Sosnowiec; forming an underground group; meetings with Jewish resistance leaders Eliezer Geller and Mordecai Anielewicz; his mother's arrest; obtaining her release by threatening Moshe Merin, head of the Judenrat; meeting with Polish partisans from Armia Krajowa; traveling with a Pole to Częstochowa and its ghetto using false papers, then to another city where he obtained weapons; ghettoization; hiding with non-Jewish friends; sending their group members and their parents to Austria and Hungary as non-Jews; escaping to Vienna; arrest; escaping to Sosnowiec; hiding with Polish friends; being smuggled to Budapest in November 1943; and reunion with his parents and friends, whose escapes he had arranged. 520 8 Mr. B. recalls working with Joel Brand to move Jews from Sopron to Budapest; traveling to Mohács; German invasion; hiding; his mother's arrest (his father had left for Palestine); smuggling Jews to Romania; capture by Hungarian gendarmes; interrogations and beatings; incarceration in a Gestapo prison in Szeged; deportation to a labor camp as a non-Jew; escape; capture; transfer to a Gestapo prison in Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz; delivering food which provided an opportunity to obtain extra bread; a friend arranging his transfer to a privileged position in the laundry; learning his mother was in Birkenau; sending her food and clothing; escaping from a death march with two friends; returning to Sosnowiec; hiding with Polish friends; liberation by Soviet troops; his appointment as head of the Sosnowiec Jewish community; traveling to Budapest, then Bucharest; returning to Budapest; reunion with his sister and mother; their emigration to Palestine; joining them in 1949; joining his uncle in Germany fourteen years later, and living there for twenty-five years. Mr. B. discusses his brother's death in Auschwitz; the prisoner hierarchy there; the importance of luck to his survival; and relations among various Zionist groups and leaders. He names many people with whom he had contact. 546 This testimony is in Hebrew. 524 Leon B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3317). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 544 1 |dRelated material: Tusia H. Holocaust testimony [friend](HVT-1089),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, |d1919- 600 10 Jabotinsky, Vladimir, |d1880-1940. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82033041 600 10 Merin, Moshe, |d1906-1943. 600 10 Ḳoz'ukh, Yiśraʼel ʻAzriʼel, |d1919-1943. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2003036863 600 10 Anielewicz, Mordecai, |d1919-1943. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr94030899 600 10 Geller, Eliezer, |d1916- 600 10 Brand, Joel, |d1906-1964. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80067518 610 20 Betar. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81012060 610 20 Gross Masselwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003103918 610 10 Poland. |bPolskie Siły Zbrojne. |bArmia Krajowa. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80149707 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 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 Zionists. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149889 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zSosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie) 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 Jewish councils. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070271 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJewish resistance. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148517 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zPoland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119158 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zCzęstochowa. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zHungary. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119781 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJews |xRescue. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148429 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, German. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148474 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, Hungarian. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119778 650 0 Concentration camps |xSociological aspects. 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Katowice (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79148228 651 0 Sękowa (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00040391 651 0 Będzin (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83168158 651 0 Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93033475 651 0 Częstochowa (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50065728 651 0 Vienna (Austria) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018895 651 0 Budapest (Hungary) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091691 651 0 Sopron (Hungary) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80065894 651 0 Mohács (Hungary) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83023546 651 0 Szeged (Hungary) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80050912 651 0 Bucharest (Romania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018848 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 False papers. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Sosnowiec ghetto. 691 4 Częstochowa ghetto. 700 1 Tarsi, Anita, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4676869 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3317) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/th8bg2hn40 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/