Leo K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2571) [videorecording] / interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman, May 25, 1993.

New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 8 min.) : col.

English

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 Fürth 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 Göring, 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.

June 01, 2002

Leo K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2571). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Leo K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2571). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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