Oral history interview with Leon Bratina
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (DVCAM), sound, color ; 1/4 in.
Biographical History
This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. Nathan Beyrak, Project Director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Leon Bratina on February 6, 2009 as part of the Museum's Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project in Slovenia.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Leon Bratina
- Bratina, Leon.
Corporate Bodies
- Ustasha, Croatian revolutionary organization
Subjects
- Bački Petrovac (Serbia)
- Brestanica (Slovenia)
- Prisoners of war--Slovenia.
- Slovenia--History--Axis occupation, 1941-1945.
- Osijek (Croatia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Slovenia.
- Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Slovenia.
- Massacres--Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Slovenian.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Slovenia.
- Slovenia--History--1918-1945.
- Vinkovci (Croatia)
- Slavonska Požega (Croatia)
- Romanies--Crimes against--Slovenia.
- Serbs--Crimes against.
- Germany--Armed Forces.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Yugoslavia.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Celje (Slovenia)
- Mass burials--Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Slovenian.
- Mass murder--Slovenia.
- Drava River.
Genre
- Oral History