Leo L. Holocaust testimony
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
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- L., Leo, -- 1924-2007.
Corporate Bodies
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
- Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
- DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Prisoners of war -- Germany.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Brothers.
- Refugee camps.
- Child survivors.
- Death marches.
- Escapes.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
Places
- Hanau (Germany)
- Gotha (Germany)
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Poznań (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Łódź ghetto.
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat