Leo K. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2571
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Leo K., who was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany in 1922, the older of two sons. He recounts his father was a cantor and synagogue teacher; moving to Nuremberg when he was three; attending Jewish schools, including high school in Fu?rth with Henry Kissinger; attending an orthodox youth group convention in Hamburg; his father obtaining a cantor's position in St. John's, Newfoundland; their emigration in March 1938 to escape Nazism; their move to the United States in March 1941; military draft in May 1943; intelligence training; participating in campaigns with the 2nd Armored Division; interrogating German POWs; discovering hidden Jews in Maastricht; his discharge after the war to become a translator at war crime trials in Nuremberg; finding his former home destroyed; translating depositions of Hermann Go?ring, Otto Ohlendorf, and Walter Schellenberg; meeting his future wife, a fellow interpreter; returning to the U.S. in 1948; marriage; the births of two children; and his career as a psychologist. Mr. K. notes learning of the camps and extermination of the Jews only after the war. He shows photographs.

Extent and Medium

2 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.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

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

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