- Interviewee
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Leo Turkell
- Experience Group
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Jewish Survivor
- Gender
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M
- Interview Length
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2:41:15
- Interview Date
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5/18/1998
- Interview Location
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CA / U.S.A.
- Birth Year
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1917
- Birth Country
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Russia/Soviet Russia
- Camps
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prisoner of war camps/ German
Blechhammer (Germany : Concentration Camp)
STALAG XI-A (Altengrabow/ Germany : POW Camp)
- Hiding or False Identity Location
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Bedzin (Poland)
Stopnica (Poland)
Vienna (Austria : Autonomous City/District)
- Type of Hiding Place
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houses
- Liberated By
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armed forces/ Soviet
- Location of Liberation
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Vienna (Austria : Autonomous City/District)
- Other Experiences
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prisons
escapes from prisons
escapes from the camps
concealment of Jewish identity
- Prewar Religious Identity
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Orthodox Judaism
- Postwar Religious Identity
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Conservative Judaism
- Description
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Forms part of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive.