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• Author/Creator:B., Leo, 1921-
  
• Title:Leo B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1217) [videorecording] / interviewed by Amy Tanich Shulkin and Gail Sherman, February 5, 1989.
  
• Published/Created:Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1989.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (2 hr., 1 min.) : col.
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
    Staff Request for Use in Manuscripts and Archives
    
    
  • Call Number: MS 1322
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  •   Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.1217)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:Related publication: Leap into darkness : seven years on the run in wartime Europe / Leo Bretholz and Michael Olesker. 1st ed. -- Baltimore, Md. : Woodholme House Publishers, c1999.
  Associated material: Bretholz, Leo. Interview 8503. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
  2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Leo B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921. He recalls his father's death when he was nine; Viennese cultural life; smuggling himself to Belgium after the Anschluss at his mother's urging (due to the perception that it was more dangerous for males); attending trade school; German invasion; and deportation to southern France in an exchange for Belgians. Mr. B. relates conditions in Saint Cyprien concentration camp; a futile attempt to enter Switzerland; incarceration in Drancy; boarding a transport to Auschwitz on November 6, 1942; escape from the train while still in France; being sheltered by a priest; obtaining false papers; arrest; incarceration in Septfonds; escape in November 1943; joining the French underground and creating false I.D. cards; and learning after the war that his mother and sisters perished in Auschwitz. Mr. B. discusses bigotry today and the importance of survivors teaching the lessons of history to counter this.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Leo B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1217). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:B., Leo, 1921-
  Saint-Cyprien (Concentration camp)
  Drancy (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.
  Jewish refugees.
  Jews--Migrations.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
  Escapes.
  Austria.
  Vienna (Austria)
  France.
  Belgium.
  Switzerland.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Aid by non-Jews.
  False papers.
  Resistance.
  Antisemitism--Prewar.
  Septfonds (France : Concentration camp)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Shulkin, Amy Tanich, interviewer.
  Sherman, Gail, interviewer.