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Leon S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3570)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3570

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Leon S., who was born in 1923, one of six children. He recounts attending public school and cheder in Chrzanów, Poland; participating in Gordonyah; working in his father's barber shop; German invasion; fleeing to Miechów; returning home; deportation to Gogolin; returning home a year later; deportation to Markstädt, Fünfteichen, Gross-Rosen, Flossenbürg, then Regensburg; slave labor on railroad lines; working as a barber (he cut the camp kommandant's hair); receiving extra food for shaving prisoners; Allied bombings; escaping from a death march; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Altötting, then Ulm; emigration to Palestine via France; and reunion with his sister.
Author/Creator: S., Leon, 1923-
Published: Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
Interview Date: August 2, 1993.
Locale: Poland
Chrzanów (Poland)
Miechów (Miechów, Poland)
Ulm (Germany)
Altötting (Germany)
France
Palestine
Cite As: Leon S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3570). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Notes: This testimony is in Hebrew.

Physical Details

Language: Hebrew
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hr.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Death marches. Poland. Chrzanów (Poland) Miechów (Miechów, Poland) Ulm (Germany) Altötting (Germany) France. Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Oral histories (document genres) S., Leon,--1923- Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association) Markstädt (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/4298295
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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