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Oral history interview with George Leitmann

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.470 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0470

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    Oral history interview with George Leitmann

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    George Leitmann discusses his childhood in Vienna, Austria; his encounters with antisemitism; having to leave school after the Nazi German annexation of Austria in 1938; being expelled with his family from their apartment in 1939; leaving Austria with his mother and two grandmothers in April 1940; their voyage to New York, sponsored by relatives; the difficulties his father encountered immigrating to the United States because he was born in Poland and fell under Polish quotas; his father's attempt to escape Austria by leading a group of Austrian Jews illegally to Yugoslavia and his execution in Yugoslavia in 1942; joining the United States Army after his high school graduation in 1944; his work as part of the Counter Intelligence Corps, interrogating prisoners of war and witnesses; his attendance at the Nuremberg war crimes trial; his service in military intelligence in the US Army Reserve; his post-war education at Columbia University and UC Berkeley in physics, where he earned a Ph.D.; and his work on the faculty of UC Berkeley, and as a Research Dean.
    Interviewee
    Professor George Leitmann
    Interviewer
    Sylvia Prozan
    Richard Kirshman
    Anne Feibelman
    Claude Marger
    Walter Partos
    Lisa William-Zigmund
    Date
    interview:  1993 May 10
    interview:  1993 May 11
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    4 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Leitmann, George.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the interview with George Leitmann from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 2002.
    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 08:45:22
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