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HVT-2125
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eng
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702158218
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HVT-2125
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R., Leon,
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1927-
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0
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Leon R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2125)
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[videorecording] /
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interviewed by David Herman,
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January 27, 1993.
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London, England :
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British Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
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1993.
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1 videorecording (2 hr., 39 min.) :
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col.
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Videotape testimony of Leon R., who was born in Ostrowiec, Poland in 1927, one of four children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; transfer with his father and brother to a labor camp; escaping; learning his mother and sisters were deported; a non-Jewish neighbor offering help; rejoining his father and brother; transfer to Bliżyn; public hangings; his brother's transfer; his father giving him his bread ration, telling him it was extra; his father's death; hardening himself; stealing food; frequent beatings; transfer to Birkenau; observing arriving transports and the crematoria smoke; a one-time, brief assignment to the crematoria area; hearing the explosion of the Sonderkommando revolt; a death march and train transfer to Buchenwald, then Theresienstadt; becoming ill; awakening after liberation by Soviet troops; a doctor wanting to adopt him; declining to shoot Germans; briefly returning to Ostrowiec; being brought to a group home in Windermere; learning his brother was alive; hearing from an uncle in Brazil; his brother going there; living in Glasgow; receiving emigration papers from his uncle; the Brazilian embassy in London refusing his emigration; meeting his future wife; marriage; and raising two sons. Mr. R. discusses visits to Brazil; a recent trip to Poland; and pervasive painful memories. He shows photographs.
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Leon R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2125). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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0
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Associated material: Rosenberg, Leon. Interview 7326.
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Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
562
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2 copies:
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3/4 in. dub;
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and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
600
1
0
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R., Leon,
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1927-
610
2
0
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Birkenau (Concentration camp)
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007
610
2
0
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Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97036997
610
2
0
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Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065698
650
0
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Holocaust survivors.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527
650
0
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Video tapes.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
650
0
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Women.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274
650
0
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Personal narratives.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518
650
0
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World War, 1939-1945
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Personal narratives, Jewish.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465
650
0
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World War, 1939-1945
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Children.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359
650
0
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Jewish children in the Holocaust.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877
650
0
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Forced labor.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
650
0
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Brothers.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017223
650
0
|a
Fathers and sons.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047455
650
0
|a
Escapes.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783
650
0
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Concentration camps
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Psychological aspects.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590
650
0
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Concentration camp inmates
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Family relationships.
650
0
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World War, 1939-1945
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Atrocities.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285
650
0
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Revenge.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113420
651
0
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Windermere (England)
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82126664
651
0
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Glasgow (Scotland)
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81039926
651
0
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Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (Poland)
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92066092
651
0
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Poland.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071
655
7
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Oral histories (document genres)
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aat
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http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
690
4
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Child survivors.
690
4
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Antisemitism
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Prewar.
690
4
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Postwar experiences.
690
4
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Aid by non-Jews.
690
4
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Mutual aid.
690
4
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Concentration camps
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Revolts.
690
4
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Postwar effects.
610
2
0
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Blizyn (Concentration camp)
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003102428
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
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Yale University Library,
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Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
902
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Manuscripts and Archives
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LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only >> MS 1322|DELIM|4676009
907
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2002-06-01T00:00:00.000Z