Leon S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Leon S., who was born in 1923, one of six children. He recounts attending public school and cheder in Chrzanów, Poland; participating in Gordonyah; working in his father's barber shop; German invasion; fleeing to Miechów; returning home; deportation to Gogolin; returning home a year later; deportation to Markstädt, Fünfteichen, Gross-Rosen, Flossenbürg, then Regensburg; slave labor on railroad lines; working as a barber (he cut the camp kommandant's hair); receiving extra food for shaving prisoners; Allied bombings; escaping from a death march; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Altötting, then Ulm; emigration to Palestine via France; and reunion with his sister.
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
People
- S., Leon, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association)
- Markstädt (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Postwar experiences.
- Death marches.
- Mutual aid.
Places
- Miechów (Miechów, Poland)
- Ulm (Germany)
- Poland.
- Chrzanów (Poland)
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
- Gogolin (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Altötting (Germany)
- France.
- Fünfteichen (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Regensburg (Germany : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat