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• Author/Creator:J., Leon, 1917-
  
• Title:Leon J. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1718) [videorecording] / interviewed by Bonnie Dwork and Kathy Strochlic, November 5, 1990.
  
• Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 38 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.1718)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Leon J., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1917. He recalls serving in the Polish army; German invasion; capture; forced labor as a POW; return to Poland in April 1940; ghettoization; obtaining a privileged position; deportation with his mother to Auschwitz in August 1944 (his two brothers remained behind); transfer to Braunschweig days later; slave labor in a car factory; train transport to Ravensbrück in February 1945, then to Ludwigslust in April; liberation by United States troops on May 2; living in a displaced persons camp; learning his brothers had survived; marriage; traveling to Bari, Italy; emigration to Israel in 1948; working in the food service industry; serving in the Sinai Campaign; and emigration with his wife and children to the United States in 1958 to join his brothers. Mr. J. discusses building a model of the Łódź ghetto; his son's interest in the Holocaust; and his daughter's lack of interest.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Leon J. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1718). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:J., Leon, 1917-
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  Braunschweig (Concentration camp)
  Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
  Ludwigslust (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish.
  Prisoners of war--Germany.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Poland--Łódź.
  Forced labor.
  Refugee camps.
  Sinai Campaign, 1956.
  Poland.
  Łódź (Poland)
  Bari (Italy)
  Israel.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Survivor-child relations.
  Łódź ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Dwork, Bonnie, interviewer.
  Strochlic, Kathy, interviewer.