Oral history interview with Leon Rytz
Extent and Medium
1 digital file, MP4
Creator(s)
- Carolyn Östberg
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.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
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
- Carolyn Östberg
- Leon Rytz
- Rytz, Leon, 1927-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.
- Human smuggling.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--Marriage.
- Helsingborg (Sweden)
- Borås (Sweden)
- Guerrillas.
- Farsleben (Germany)
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Altruism.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Skarzysko-Kamienna (Poland)
- Holocaust survivors--Sweden.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Construction workers.
- Concentration camp escapes.
- Textile workers--Sweden--Borås.
- Sweden--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
- Jews--Sweden--Borås.
- Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
- Holocaust survivors--Psychology.
- Jewish businesspeople--Poland.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Quarantine.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Juvenile.
- Refugee camps--Germany--Farsleben.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Antisemitism--Poland.
Genre
- Oral History
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