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Oral history interview with Leib Braverman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.261 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0261

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    Oral history interview with Leib Braverman

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    Interview Summary
    Leib Braverman, born in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania in 1929, discusses his early family life; pre-war antisemitism; the Germans' arrival; life in the Kovno ghetto; 'aktia' and selections within the ghetto; his travels through Stutthof, Landsberg, and Dachau; his experiences in Auschwitz and Mauthausen; liberation; hospitalization in Linz, Austria; traveling east, in search of news about his family, to such places as Munkacz (Mukacheve), Ukraine, Minsk, Belarus, Vilna, Lithuania, and Kovno; returning to his studies after the war; immigrating to Israel in 1973; and writing a book about his Holocaust experiences.
    Interviewee
    Leib Braverman
    Date
    interview:  1995 November 17-1995 December 21
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    14 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Leib Braverman in Israel over several days from November 17, 1995 to December 21, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in May 31, 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:15:50
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