Overview
- Description
- Photocopy of a transcript, 63 pages, of several interviews conducted by Elizabeth Conant with Leo Weinrieb, originally of Poland, but who survived the Holocaust while in hiding in the Netherlands. Interviews were recorded in 2009 and 2010 in Willliamsville, NY, and were subsequently transcribed by Kathleen Hume, under the title "Leo Weinrieb: My Many Lives."
- Date
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creation:
2009-2010
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Elizabeth Conant
- Collection Creator
- Leo Weinrieb
- Biography
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Leo Weinrieb (1917-2011) was born in what was then the Russian Empire, in present-day Poland (in a village between Sosnowiec and Katowice), in 1917. Following his birth, but before the formation of the Polish state in the wake of World War I, his parents decided it would be better to live in Germany, and immigrated there, where his father initially found work as a coal miner in western Germany. Later, his parents worked in a furniture store and in a grocery business, and when Leo completed his schooling, he worked in a department store (Karstadt). In 1937, with increasing persecution of Jews in Germany, his parents decided it would be best to emigrate, and they, Leo, and his siblings, escaped to the Netherlands, and then they immigrated to Brazil the following year. However, after a year spent in Rio de Janeiro, the family decided to return to the Netherlands, and were living there at the time of the German invasion in May 1940. Weinrieb, who had married in the meantime, was interned in the Jewish ghetto in Amsterdam, but eventually he and his wife were smuggled out by members of the resistance, and hid in a town in the Limburg region, where they were protected by Dutch farmers for the duration of the war. Following the war, Weinrieb was reunited with his parents, and in 1948, he, with his wife and children, immigrated to the United States, settling first in New York City, before relocating to Buffalo. Leo Weinrieb died on 1 July 2011.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Personal narratives.
- Extent
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1 folder
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Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Gift of Elizabeth Conant, 2016.
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- 2023-02-24 14:30:42
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Oral history interview with Leo Weinrieb
Oral History
Leo Weinrieb, originally of Poland, describes his experiences while in hiding in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.