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Oral history interview with Leo Weinrieb

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.59 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0059

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    Oral history interview with Leo Weinrieb

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Leo Weinrieb, born 1917 in Zagorza, Russia (possibly Zagorsk, Russia), describes his parents fleeing illegally to Germany to avoid service in the Red Army; his father working as a coal miner then opening a furniture store; being allowed to stay in Germany legally eventually; feeling threatened in 1933 during the rise of the Nazis; going illegally to the Netherlands; living in Amsterdam and obtaining papers to go to Brazil, where his father worked in a brick factory and he learned manufacturing of leather goods; attending a Catholic school in Germany for four years; having a Jewish upbringing; attending an art school to learn window dressing, but being kicked out because he was a Jew; life in Brazil and going back to Europe after eight months; returning to Holland in 1934; starting a successful factory for leather belts; his factory being confiscated when Hitler invaded in 1940; making plastic rain hoods in his home; young boys being deported to Mauthausen; he and his brother being involved with different groups in the underground movement; possessing documents that led the Germans to believe that he was a Brazilian citizen; hiding a Dutch family in his home; getting married in 1941; the underground helping them to hide on a farm with a couple and their three children; receiving false papers and staying on the farm for two years; listening to the BBC news; the story of how he saved his parents from deportation; his parents being caught later and deported to Bergen-Belsen; finding his parents after the war; his two brothers and his sisters surviving in hiding; adopting a young repatriated boy whose parents were found later; making small wooden shoes to be sold as souvenirs and moving back to Amsterdam; going to New York City in 1948; selling ties from a stand in front of Macy’s; moving to Buffalo, NY; his family in Poland not surviving; working at a paper company then as a money collector; moving San Diego, CA, where he worked for J.C. Penny’s and returning to Buffalo; not telling most of his stories to his children; and the importance of preventing the Holocaust from happening again.
    Interviewee
    Leo Weinrieb
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Weinrieb, Leo, 1917-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Leo Weinrieb with the cooperation and support of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, N.Y. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received copies of interviews from the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo from 1990 - 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
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    2023-11-16 08:08:30
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