Overview
- Interview Summary
- William Léons, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on August 29, 1935, discusses his experiences as a hidden child during the Holocaust; the Dutch Mennonites Tan and Henk Middeldop who hid him at great risk to themselves; the small attic room of the apartment house in which he stayed during the German occupation from 1942-1944; his loneliness and trauma as a young child; his father Abraham Léons who perished in Mauthausen concentration camp; his mother Paulina Léons who survived Vught concentration; his reunion with his mother after her liberation by English and Canadian troops in October 1944; and immigrating to the United States in 1949 and settling in Hoboken, N.J.
- Date
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Recorded:
2014 April 22
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eve Leons
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Civil rights movements--United States.
- Personal Name
- Léons, William, 1935-2014. Middeldop, Henk. Middeldop, Tan.
- Corporate Name
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Vught (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Eve Leons donated her father William Léons' presentation to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April 2021.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 10:09:28
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