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Author/Creator:K., Leslie, 1927-
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Title:Leslie K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1746) [videorecording] / interviewed by Jaschael Pery, February 4, 1992.
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Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (2 hr., 26 min.) : col.
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Yale Holdings
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Call Number: MS 1322
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.1746)
For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Notes:2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Leslie K., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927. He recalls growing up in Oradea; antisemitism; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws; German occupation in April 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; remaining with his brother and a cousin; slave labor in a coal mine; learning about the extermination process, but repressing it; extermination of the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); difficulty communicating with other prisoners since he did not speak Yiddish; learning of the Sonderkommando revolt from an escapee (a former teacher) who joined his barrack; public hanging of a group organizing an uprising; sharing stolen food with his cousin and brother; evacuation to Gross-Rosen, then Dachau in January 1945; transfer a month later to Waldlager; hospitalization; his brother smuggling food to him; evacuation of his brother and cousin; liberation by United States troops; a long recovery; reunion with his brother (his cousin was killed); traveling to Budapest to join their uncle; returning to Oradea; learning their sister had perished; fleeing to refugee camps in the American zone; emigration to the United States; marriage to a survivor; and serving in the U.S. military. Mr. K. discusses camp life, including preoccupation with food (mentally cooking); his emotional letdown after liberation; and nightmares. He shows photographs.
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Cite as:Leslie K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1746). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:K., Leslie, 1927-
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Waldlager V (Concentration camp)
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Men.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945--Children.
Jewish ghettos.
Jews--Romania--Oradea.
Forced labor.
Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
Concentration camps--Sociological aspects.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
Brothers.
Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships.
Refugee camps.
Berlin (Germany)
Germany.
Oradea (Romania)
Budapest (Hungary)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
Antisemitism--Prewar.
Hungarian occupation.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Concentration camps--Revolts.
Concentration camps--Underground movements.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Oradea ghetto.
Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager)
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Pery, Jaschael, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4317750