Oral history interview with Leonid Okon
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Leonid Okon in Israel on July 2, 1993, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Leonid Okon
- Zorin, Shalom, 1902-1974.
- Okon, Leonid.
Corporate Bodies
- Bielski partisans (Resistance group)
Subjects
- Jews--Belarus--Minsk.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Soviet Union.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Guerrilla couriers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Military intelligence--Soviet Union.
- Belarus--History--1917-1991.
- Bombing, Aerial--Belarus--Minsk.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Soviet Union.
- Hanging--Belarus--Minsk.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Juvenile.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Jewish partisans (Holocaust)
- Jews--Germany--Hamburg.
- Resistance Groups (ushmm)
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus.
- Minsk (Belarus)
- Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Minsk.
- Belarus
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Belarus.
- Guerrillas--Belarus.
- Belarus--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Pogroms--Belarus.
Genre
- Oral History
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