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USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimony of Leon Welbel

Oral History | Digitized | VHA Interview Code: 1770

Overview

Interviewee: Leon Welbel
Experience Group: Jewish Survivor
Gender: M
Interview Length: 2:59:50
Interview Date: 3/30/1995
Interview Location: IL / U.S.A.
Birth Year: 1916
Birth City: Lunna (Poland)
Birth Country: Russia/Soviet Russia
Camps: prisoner of war camps/ German
Kielbasin (Poland : Concentration Camp)
Mauthausen (Austria : Concentration Camp)
Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland : Death Camp)
Gusen (Austria : Concentration Camp)(generic)
Hiding or False Identity Location: East Prussia (Prussia/ Germany : Province)
Liberated By: armed forces/ United States
Location of Liberation: Gusen (Austria : Concentration Camp)(generic)
Other Experiences: prisons
displaced persons camps
concealment of Jewish identity
forced labor: body removal and disposal
Sonderkommando Uprising (Auschwitz II-Birkenau) Oct 7/ 1944
Prewar Religious Identity: traditional Judaism
Description: Forms part of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive.

Physical Details

Language: English and Yiddish

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Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive
Special Collection: USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive

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