Oral history interview with Leon Benson
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Leon Benson on July 29, 1992 and August 25, 1992. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in August 1999.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
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
People
- Benson, Leon, 1931-
- Leon Benson
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Jewish orphans.
- Death march survivors.
- Jews--Poland--Łódź.
- Paris (France)
- Zionists.
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children.
- Child labor.
- Jewish orphanages--France--Paris.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from France.
- Ushers.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Grenades.
- Germany.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Holocaust survivors--California--San Francisco.
- Jews, Polish--France--Paris.
- Forced labor.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
Genre
- Oral History
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