Leo L. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1526
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Leo L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-729), Mr. L. recounts working in a textile workshop in Auschwitz; privileged work transporting potatoes at Ohrdruf; protection from the German guard; hospitalization after being kicked by an Ukrainian guard; losing his privileged position; the German guard "saving his life" by reclaiming him for his group; a death march in March 1945; escaping with a Soviet POW and others; returning to Ohrdruf; liberation; traveling to Gotha; a Jewish-American soldier providing him with a room and work; working for UNRRA, then the Joint in Hanau; searching for relatives in displaced persons camps; finding three cousins in Bergen-Belsen; contact with three more cousins; finding cousins in Israel who had photographs of his family; visiting Poland in 1983 and finding the woman who had helped him smuggle food into the ghetto; visiting again in 1987 and locating documents detailing his family's deportation to Chelmno, which he then visited. Mr. L. dedicates his testimony to a soldier he recently met who had liberated Ohrdruf.

Extent and Medium

3 videocassettes

Conditions Governing Access

This testimony is open with permission.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.

Related Units of Description

  • Related material: Leo L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-729), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

Places

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.