Leo B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Leo B., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1921, the middle of three children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending Jewish school; participating in Agudat, intending to emigrate to Palestine; preparing for that in Darmstadt; his brother's emigration to Palestine; burning of the synagogue on Kristallnacht; emigrating with his mother, father, and sister to Amsterdam; incarceration with his father in refugee camps; transfer by himself to Deventer, Eindhoven, then Westerbork; finding his father there; arrival of many Jews after German occupation; organizing activities for the children; celebrating Jewish holidays; transfer to Auschwitz, then Gleiwitz; slave labor in a train repair facility; beatings for taking extra food and for having tefillin; hospitalization; transfer to Blechhammer; liberation by Soviet troops; transport to Krako?w, then Gleiwitz; volunteering in a hospital; learning his parents and sister were killed; living in Switzerland for six months; illegal emigration to Palestine; reunion with his brother; joining the Haganah; his brother's death in the 1948 war; marriage; the births of two children; and his career as a rehabilitation expert for handicapped people. Mr. B. discusses his loss of faith due to his experiences,
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes
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People
- B., Leo, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- Haganah (Organization)
- Agudat Israel.
- Westerbork (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Blechhammer E/3 (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar effects.
- Mutual aid.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Faith.
- Forced labor.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Child survivors.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Fathers and sons.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Jewish refugees.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
- Deventer (Netherlands : Concentration camp)
- Eindhoven (Netherlands : Concentration camp)
- Gleiwitz (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Darmstadt (Germany)
- Switzerland.
- KrakoĚw (Poland)
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Germany.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat