Oral history interview with Leon Selinger
- Identifier
- irn36243
- Language of Description
- English
- Alt. Identifiers
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- 2008.206
- RG-50.848.0001
- Languages
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- English
- Source
- EHRI Partner
Extent and Medium
1 DVD
1 DVD.
Acquisition
Mark Selinger donated his father's oral history to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on July 28, 2008.
Accession number: 2008.206
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mark Selinger
Scope and Content
Consists of one oral history interview, approx. 1 hour, with Leon Selinger, originally of Drohobycz, Poland. In the interview, which was conducted in June 2008 by Leon's grandson, Ari Selinger, he describes his childhood in Drohobycz, the German occupation and being forced to move into the ghetto. He describes hearing of an action and seeing the clothing of the victims being returned to Drohobycz. He escaped deportation for a time by going into temporary hiding places, but was eventually picked up with his father and brother and taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz, and Mauthausen. He was separated from his father and brother at Dachau, and was liberated near Flossenburg. He reunited with his father and brother near Regensburg and immigrated to the United States in 1947.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Note(s)
Record type: Oral History
Subjects
- Concentration camps--Poland--Oświęcim.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Ukraine--Drohobych.