Leo K. Holocaust testimony
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
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- Ohlendorf, Otto, -- 1907-1951.
- GoĚring, Hermann, -- 1893-1946.
- Schellenberg, Walter, -- 1910-1952.
- K., Leo, -- 1922-
- Kissinger, Henry, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- United States. -- Army. -- Armored Division, 2nd.
Subjects
- Child survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- War crime trials -- Germany.
- Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.
- Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, American.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Jewish refugees.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Germany.
- St. John's (N.L.)
- Maastricht (Netherlands)
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Europe.
- Nuremberg (Germany)
- Aschaffenburg (Germany)
- Hamburg (Germany)
- FuĚrth (Bavaria, Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat