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Oral history interview with Moshe Leshem

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.620 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0491

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    Oral history interview with Moshe Leshem

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Moshe Leshem, born in 1918 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, describes growing up in a Zionist family; the relations between Jews and Gentiles before World War II in Czechoslovakia; his studies at a medical school in Brno until he decided to quit and start tutoring at a local coffeehouse; his father's efforts to take his family to England or the United States; his involvement with the Zionist Hechalutz organization; working on a farm in Michałowice, Poland as part of the agricultural training needed to immigrate to Palestine; being transferred to a farm in Prague, Czechoslovakia and taking a leadership position in Hechalutz; the belief of the Jewish community in Prague that the ghetto in Theresienstadt was the best way to save Czech Jews from deportation; the involvement of the Jewish youth in preparing the ghetto for habitation; his suspension from the Hechalutz for speaking out against the Jewish community's leadership; obtaining false documents for himself and his wife; contacting the communist underground and working as a forger; setting up a deal with the Prague Labor Exchange to replace Czechs who were to be sent to forced labor camps in Germany with Jews; and immigrating to Israel and then the United States.
    Interviewee
    Mr. Moshe Leshem
    Interviewer
    Karen Michelle
    Date
    interview:  2004 October 06
    interview:  2004 November 13

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    3 sound cassettes (60 min.).

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Leshem, Moshe, 1918-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Moshe Leshem on October 6, 2004 and November 13, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in December 2004.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:10
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