Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Leon G., who was born in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland in 1925, the eldest of three children. He recounts Sabbath and Jewish holidays in a large, extended family; attending public school; antisemitic violence; his father's service in the Polish military; German invasion; his father's return three weeks later; confiscation of his company; a public hanging of randomly selected men (Poles and Jews); ghettoization; forced relocation to the Sosnowiec ghetto; non-Jews helping them hide in a bunker; discovery; separation from his father and youngest sister; transfer to Sosnowiec concentration camp; his other sister's deportation; separation from his mother; deportation to Auchwitz; slave labor in a Siemens factory; frequent public hangings; transfer in open coal cars to a Siemens factory near Berlin in January 1945; a death march to Buchenwald; liberation from a death march by United States troops; assistance from the Red Cross and transfer by them to Malmö, Sweden; hospitalization; learning through the Red Cross that his family were all killed; living in Lund; marriage to another survivor; and emigration to Argentina.
- Published
- Buenos Aires, Argentina : Fundacion "Memoria del Holocausto", 1991
- Interview Date
- May 8, 2001.
- Locale
- Poland
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)
Dąbrowa Górnicza
Dąbrowa Górnicza (Poland)
Malmö (Sweden)
Lund (Sweden) - Cite As
- Leon G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4142). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Spanish.
Physical Details
- Language
- Spanish
- Copies
- 2 copies: Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 57 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Hiding.
Bunkers.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Jews--Poland--Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie) Jews--Poland--Dąbrowa Górnicza. Jewish ghettos. Mothers and sons. Brothers and sisters. Forced labor. Death marches. Poland. Dąbrowa Górnicza (Poland) Malmö (Sweden) Lund (Sweden) Oral histories (document genres) G., Leon,--1925- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Siemens Aktiengesellschaft. Buchenwald (Concentration camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Sosnowiec (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/4847633
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4847633
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