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• Author/Creator:B., Leo, 1918-
  
• Title:Leo B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2680) [videorecording] / interviewed by Joanne Weiner Rudof and Barbara Hadley Katz, November 1, 1994.
  
• Published/Created:New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 2 min.) : col.
  

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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.2680)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:Associated material: Berman, Leo. Interview 51464. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
  3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Leo B., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1918 to a family of seven children. He describes family life, especially his mother's vital role; the outbreak of war; anti-Jewish measures; being humiliated by Germans; forced labor in a factory; one brother's deportation in 1941; his sisters' deportation in 1942; a round-up in 1942; his father's and aunt's deportation (he never saw them again); his deportation to Gräditz (he never saw his mother, oldest brother and sister again); transfer in three months to Brande, then Blechhammer; and forced labor and beatings, from which he still bears scars. Mr. B. recalls assistance from local people in Gräditz and a German girl in Brande; Lageraltester Karl Demerer in Blechhammer; liberation from Blechhammer by civilians in 1945; walking to Sosnowiec; the return of two sisters; moving with them to Reichenbach; reunion with his surviving brother; traveling with his brother and sisters to Erding; his sisters' marriages; his brother's emigration to the United States in 1950; and his own in 1951. He reflects on the futility of the deaths of his mother, brothers, and sisters; the pervasiveness of his memories; and his doubts that the world can ever learn a lesson.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Leo B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2680). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:B., Leo, 1918-
  Demerer, Karl.
  Blechhammer E/3 (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Poland--Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)
  Forced labor.
  Mothers and sons.
  Sisters.
  Brothers.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Poland.
  Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
  Dzierżoniów (Poland)
  Erding (Germany)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Aid by non-Jews.
  Mutual aid.
  Postwar experiences.
  Postwar effects.
  Sosnowiec ghetto.
  Gräditz (Poland : Concentration camp)
  Brande (Poland : Concentration camp)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Rudof, Joanne Weiner, interviewer.
  Katz, Barbara Hadley, interviewer.